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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 book comforts Jessie?
(a) Charlotte's Web.
(b) Speak.
(c) Matilda.
(d) The BFG.

2. What had broken a week ago in the protagonist's attic?
(a) An antique fan.
(b) A dresser.
(c) The Treski television.
(d) An air conditioner.

3. What is the nickname Evan uses for Jessie that she hates?
(a) Whiner Winyson.
(b) Juicy.
(c) Grumpminster Funk
(d) Baby.

4. At the start of Chapter 6, how does Jessie know that Evan is up to something?
(a) He makes at least 10 phone calls.
(b) He does not leave his room.
(c) He refuses to talk to her.
(d) He keeps himself downstairs in the basement.

5. After her and Megan's first day of sales, how does Jessie really feel?
(a) She wants to make more money than Evan.
(b) She wants Evan to join her lemonade stand.
(c) She wants to play with her brother.
(d) She wants the old Evan back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the 4 girls in second grade that make fun of Jessie?

2. At the end of Chapter 2, how is Jessie and Evan's relationship?

3. What does Megan's friend in Chapter 6 immediately ask Jessie?

4. What is one reason the boys set up their first lemonade stand where they do in Chapter 3?

5. What does Evan do when he hears his sister call for him in the basement in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the start of Chapter 4, how are Jessie and Megan doing at their lemonade stand?

2. What difficulty does Evan have when it comes to selling lemonade?

3. At the start of the novel, Evan is throwing a baseball up and down, and he thinks, "The thought that if he missed he'd probably break his nose made the game just interesting enough" (1). Why might he feel this way?

4. After the first day of selling lemonade, what does the reader find out about Jessie's real feelings toward Evan?

5. What do a group of second grade girls do to Jessie that is very mean?

6. On their second day of selling, why are Jessie and Megan not doing very well making money?

7. Why do Evan and Jessie make a vow after their dad left to never argue in front of their mom?

8. What does Jessie mean when she says that "feelings" are her worst subject?

9. Why does Jessie try so hard to help Evan with the lemonade stand at the start of the novel?

10. Both Evan and Jessie make some strong arguments about who is right about their current lemonade war in Chapter 5. What are their arguments?

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