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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 word does Edward find to be derogatory in the extreme?
(a) Doll.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Bunny.

2. What is the name of the ship that Abilene and her parents are to voyage on in Chapter 3?
(a) The Queen Anne.
(b) The Queen Mary.
(c) The Royal Shore.
(d) The Titanic.

3. What does Abilene do each morning after dressing Edward?
(a) She sets him on her doll shelf.
(b) She puts him in a baby carriage.
(c) She winds his watch.
(d) She makes him tea.

4. What does Edward do when Pellagrina looks at him like a hawk at the dinner table in Chapter 3?
(a) He coughs.
(b) He nods his head.
(c) He shivers.
(d) He speaks.

5. After how many days at the dump does Edward's salvation arrive in Chapter 11?
(a) 180.
(b) 352.
(c) 153.
(d) 252.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edward conclude to be the reason that Pellagrina was disappointed in him in Chapter 11?

2. Why did it make no difference that the princess was beautiful in Pellagrina's story in Chapter 4?

3. What is Abilene's mother outraged that Rosie has done in Chapter 2?

4. On what birthday did Abilene get Edward as a gift?

5. Why does Lolly take Edward to the dump in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Edward's pocket watch become lost in the flashback in Chapter 2?

2. How is Lawrence described? What does he do?

3. How and why is Edward thrown from the ship in Chapter 5?

4. How are Bull and Lucy described? Where does Edward encounter them?

5. What items does Nellie make for Edward?

6. What does Lolly do with Edward? Why?

7. Who is Pellagrina and how is this character described?

8. How is Edward moved from the sea bottom in Chapter 7?

9. What does Edward see as he falls from the ship in Chapters 5 and 6?

10. What does Edward think about being renamed Susanna?

(see the answer keys)

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