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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 steps are taken to make sure Liz and her family are safe after Marlee tells Betty Jean about the episode in the woods from Chapter 40?
(a) It is decided Liz's father will carry a gun.
(b) It is decided Liz and her family will move.
(c) It is decided that people will sit in Liz's house all night to make sure no one tries to hurt them.
(d) It is decided Liz's family will get police protection.

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

3. What is the second thing Marlee suggests might help Liz stay quiet in tense situations?
(a) Finding the nearest tree and climbing it.
(b) Doing multiplication tables on her fingers.
(c) Playing cat's cradle.
(d) Snapping her fingers.

4. Why is Marlee worried about her father after he completes the requirements of Act 10?
(a) She thinks he might get arrested.
(b) She thinks he will leave the family.
(c) She thinks he might get fired.
(d) She thinks he will leave their church.

5. Who is Marlee surprised to see at her first WEC meeting?
(a) Her own mother.
(b) Liz.
(c) Mrs. Dalton, JT's mother.
(d) Sally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the WEC is ostensibly apolitical, what do its members really privately believe in?

2. Who do Marlee and her mother meet while they are out doing political work on the street in Chapter 45?

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

4. Who is Marlee hoping to see at the zoo in Chapter 47?

5. Who is Marlee's substitute teacher when she comes back to school after being sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Red do at the Christmas parade that upsets Marlee?

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

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

4. What purpose does Marlee help Ms. Winthrop canvass her neighborhood for?

5. Why did Marlee feel so responsible for Betty Jean's son, Curtis's, arrest?

6. How does JT react when Marlee finally tells him she will no longer do his math homework for him?

7. What does Marlee tell her mother when her mother comes to pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

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

9. Why does Marlee ask her mother to come pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

10. What does David tell Marlee about the significance of Act 10?

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