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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "A Bright Blue Day".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Wanda live in a small frame house not far beyond the home of old man Svenson?
(a) Her father and her mother and her brother Jake.
(b) Her maternal grandparents and her brother Jake.
(c) Her father and her brother Jake.
(d) Her brother Jake.

2. Who had called the weather "bright blue" (19) on the day of the hundred dresses game's invention?
(a) Cecile.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Maddie.
(d) Wanda.

3. Who sits directly behind Wanda in the classroom?
(a) Maddie.
(b) Jack.
(c) Peggy.
(d) Bill.

4. What had Peggy and Maddie been doing as they walked to school with their arms around one another the morning of the dresses game's invention?
(a) Skipping.
(b) Singing.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Laughing.

5. What was NOT among the comments made by the various girls admiring Cecile's new outfit?
(a) One girl said that she planned to force her mother to buy her an outfit like Cecile's.
(b) One girl said that her mother had just bought her a dress made of one of the Stuart plaids.
(c) One girl said that she had just gotten a new dress for dancing school.
(d) One girl said that her father had just been laid off, so she had not been able to buy a new dress for the school year.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week does the narrative begin?

2. The hundred dresses game had begun on the day when Cecile wore a new article of what type of clothing to school?

3. What kind of laughter is Peggy said to elicit from the rest of the girls in her group when she plays the hundred dresses game?

4. What emotion does Maddie feel when the school gong rings its first warning bell?

5. What quality does Wanda's lone dress always exhibit?

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