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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. How does Lulu's father get into the house?
(a) He crawls in a window.
(b) He sweet talks Lulu into letting him in.
(c) He uses a key.
(d) He breaks down a door.

2. How does Lulu's grandmother react when Lulu asks to see Merry in the hospital?
(a) She screams at her.
(b) She throws a book at her.
(c) She gets a migraine.
(d) She ignores her.

3. Where does Lulu work in Chapter 11?
(a) A movie theater.
(b) The A&P.
(c) A diner.
(d) Starbucks.

4. Lulu tells Mrs. Cohen that she is scared because _______________________.
(a) She is afraid that she will be fatally attacked by the mean girls.
(b) She is afraid that Merry will kill herself.
(c) No boy will ever want to date her.
(d) She won't be able to go to college.

5. What does Grandma Zelda force Lulu to promise?
(a) That Merry and her father will be taken care of.
(b) That she will not get married too young.
(c) That she will look after her grave.
(d) That she will get a college education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lulu live after her mother's murder?

2. What are Lulu's parents fighting about?

3. Why does Merry have an outburst at the table on the holiday in #73?

4. Who is Mrs. Cohen?

5. Where does Lulu refuse to go with Merry and their grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Lulu describe her parents in the first chapters of the book?

4. `What tragedy occurs as a result of Joey and Celeste's fight?

5. What responsibility does Lulu feel toward Merry at the orphanage?

6. What are some of the things that happen to Merry at the hands of bullies at the orphanage?

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

8. What surprises Lulu about her own feelings toward her father at the cemetery?

9. What promise does Grandma Zelda force Lulu to make?

10. How do Joey and Celeste's passions eventually lead to murder?

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