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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 happens when Liz tries Marlee's suggestion about going through the multiplication tables to help her stay quiet?
(a) It does not work.
(b) Liz's mother tells her not to do it.
(c) She gets in a fight with another student.
(d) It works perfectly.

2. What does Marlee finally tell her mother in Chapter 37?
(a) That she was very upset Judy was living with their grandmother.
(b) That she likes JT and did not like her mother interfering in their relationship.
(c) That she is actually still seeing Liz.
(d) That she does not like JT and that JT had been forcing her to do his homework for months.

3. What kind of party does Sally have?
(a) A roller-skating party.
(b) A hiking party.
(c) A nail-painting party.
(d) A sailing party.

4. What is Judy's boyfriend's name?
(a) Robert Laurence.
(b) Harvey Dent.
(c) Jimmy Curtis.
(d) Joe Antonio.

5. What happens to Marlee's mother, David and Judy on the flight?
(a) Their seatbelts break.
(b) They spill their drinks.
(c) They get sick to their stomachs.
(d) They get headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the acronym for the new group Marlee and her parents join to try to protect her father's job?

2. Who is Marlee surprised to see at her first WEC meeting?

3. How does Betty Jean figure out that Marlee is secretly seeing Liz?

4. Why does Marlee decide not to tell her father about receiving threatening phone calls related to her WEC work?

5. What does Marlee tell JT about doing his math homework in Chapter 33?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the leaders of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) insist is their only mission and why?

2. What does Marlee's mother tell her about the origins of Marlee's name when she gives her the letter opener on her birthday?

3. What did Betty Jean tell Marlee about what the NAACP had advised Negroes about sending their children to private segregated schools?

4. How does Marlee feel about Liz's budding relationship with Curtis?

5. What problems does Liz tell Marlee she experiences once she has to attend the Negro school in her neighborhood?

6. What big news does Judy tell Marlee over Thanksgiving break and what does Marlee think about it?

7. Why does Liz not understand why Marlee stopped liking JT?

8. How does Marlee's expectation of the plane ride her father gives the family compare with her actual experience of the journey?

9. What did Marlee hope would come of her writing down a Bible verse and putting it in her mother's purse?

10. What idea does Marlee come up with to help Liz be quiet in tense situations?

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