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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 is the important issue the women discuss at Marlee's first WEC meeting?
(a) Figuring out how to get men to join their group.
(b) Figuring out how to recruit Negro members.
(c) Finding suitable candidates to run for the school board.
(d) Planning a protest.

2. What is one of Marlee's fears that prevents her from feeling comfortable doing the thing Liz asks her to try for the first time in Chapter 36?
(a) Small spaces.
(b) Heights.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Snakes.

3. Why is Marlee's mother unable to go to the zoo with her in Chapter 47?
(a) She has a migraine.
(b) She has to work.
(c) She has to cook.
(d) She broke her arm.

4. What does Marlee tell Mr. Harding about working on math in the new year in Chapter 33?
(a) She says she wants to try Calculus.
(b) She says she wants to try Geometry.
(c) She says she wants to get another math tutor to help her.
(d) She says she would like to do extra math every other day.

5. What does Marlee steal that Red has left on a bench in Chapter 47?
(a) His driver's license.
(b) His wallet.
(c) His ring.
(d) The key to his car trunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marlee feel about the prospect of flying?

2. What does Marlee do to help Betty Jean when she tells her about Curtis's arrest?

3. Why do JT and Red fail to see Liz when they follow Marlee to the rock crusher, where she is meeting Liz?

4. What is the second thing Marlee suggests might help Liz stay quiet in tense situations?

5. What did Marlee do with her father and David on Thanksgiving Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marlee walk into the woods when she realizes JT and Red have followed her to the rock crusher?

2. What does Liz ask Marlee to do in exchange for Liz catching crawdads with Marlee?

3. What is the reason Marlee's father gives when she asks him why he helped Curtis get out of jail?

4. What does Mrs. Dalton, JT's mother, tell the WEC women about why she is there helping the group?

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

6. Why is Marlee so upset when her mother suggests she tutor JT in math?

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

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

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

10. What do the WEC leaders tell Marlee about how they deal with the threatening letters they receive about their political work?

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