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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rachel seem to say to Melinda as Melinda spies her?
(a) I hate you.
(b) I have your assignments.
(c) Meet me later.
(d) Nothing.

2. What list of ten items is given in "First Marking Period"?
(a) Five ways to begin to feel comfortable in high school.
(b) The the first ten lies told to you in high school.
(c) The three cardinal rules of high school.
(d) The ten most likely ways to succeed in high school.

3. How does Melinda get her potatoes and gravy on her blouse?
(a) She trips over a blind boy's cane.
(b) She trips on a girl's backpack.
(c) The person next to her in line flips her plate onto her.
(d) A basketball player bumps into her.

4. What is Melinda's response to her parents' harangue at the dinner table?
(a) She cries.
(b) She defends her actions.
(c) She goes to her room.
(d) She tells them she will do better.

5. Where does Melinda decide to spend her time after school?
(a) At the gym watching Rachel.
(b) In her closet at the school.
(c) Spying on the football team.
(d) Working on her trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Melinda's new school?

2. Why is Mr. Neck upset about his son?

3. Why does Melinda see math as being easy?

4. What is the name of the "clan" that Heather has found?

5. What does Melinda notice about her lips in the mirror?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Melinda's first impressions of the art room.

2. How does Melinda find a safe space for herself at school and what is the space like?

3. What are some names Melinda comes up with for groups of students in the auditorium, and to what group does she belong?

4. What is Mr. Freeman like and what does he have the students do on the first day?

5. How do Melinda and her parents usually communicate and why?

6. What happens in algebra class that feels disastrous to Melinda?

7. Why doesn't Melinda go trick or treating, and what does she do on Halloween?

8. Describe Melinda's Thanksgiving Day.

9. How does Melinda feel about Algebra compared to other math courses she has taken?

10. What class would Melinda avoid if possible and why?

(see the answer keys)

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