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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 verb does Stella use to describe to Jojo what the Klan members are doing?
(a) Plotting.
(b) Praying.
(c) Practicing.
(d) Playing.

2. Stella and Tony had walked to school together since they were in what grade?
(a) First.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

3. Stella tells her mother that she would love to go to what location in Spindale?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The museum.
(c) The library.
(d) The private school.

4. Stella describes her brains as "dumplings in" (97) what type of soup?
(a) Tomato.
(b) Somebody else's.
(c) Goat head.
(d) Leftover.

5. Stella is the only student in the school who has what trait?
(a) She wears braces.
(b) She is left-handed.
(c) She is under five feet tall.
(d) She has straight hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jojo says that the Klan members had looked like what?

2. How old is Jojo?

3. At what location is the Christmas pageant always held in Stella's community?

4. What type of material was used to create the Mills' kitchen table?

5. How many times in her life has Stella seen an airplane in the sky?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide a description of Mama's temperament.

2. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?

3. Who is Spoon Man?

4. What aspect of transformation does Stella observe and write about within her "Trees" essay?

5. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?

6. What realization does Stella make about Dr. Packard and what does she do about her realization?

7. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?

8. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?

9. What does Tony's father do for a living and how does his position demonstrate the theme of inequality?

10. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?

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