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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. Where does Lulu refuse to go with Merry and their grandmother?
(a) To visit her father.
(b) To the cemetery.
(c) To BINGO night.
(d) To the mall.

2. What do Merry and her grandmother buy on each outing in #35?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Candy.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Milk shakes.

3. Where does Lulu's mother send Merry during the argument?
(a) The neighbor's house.
(b) The shed.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The bathroom.

4. What gift had Mrs. Cohen given Lulu for Chanukah?
(a) Pearl earrings.
(b) A blue poncho.
(c) A navy coat.
(d) A red sweater.

5. What holiday meal does Merry help Mrs. Cohen prepare in Chapter 11?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Chanukah.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Fourth of July.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does one of the girls at the orphanage threaten to use on Lulu one night?

2. In which New York borough do the girls live with the Cohens?

3. What weapon does Lulu's mother say that her husband has?

4. At the cemetery, Lulu thinks her father looks like ___________________.

5. How much time passes between the holiday and when Merry gets to visit her father in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tries to help Merry work through the emotions she has related to her father and his failed attempt to kill her on the day he killed her mother?

2. How does Lulu coyly work her way into Mrs. Cohen's sympathy?

3. In what ways do Lulu and Merry learn lessons of abandonment early in their lives?

4. What is Lulu's secret wish as she encounters her father at the cemetery?

5. What surprise do Lulu and Merry encounter at Grandma Zelda's funeral?

6. In whose care is Lulu placed after her mother's death and how does she finally manage to visit Merry in the hospital?

7. What obligation does Merry feel toward her father?

8. Into whose home do Lulu and Merry move in as foster children and what directions does Lulu give Merry about how to behave and what to say?

9. On Thanksgiving Day, how does Merry finally get her point across that she wants to see her father?

10. What happens to Lulu's hopes for being adopted by the parents of a high school girl who volunteers to spend time with Lulu?

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