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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 weapon does one of the girls at the orphanage threaten to use on Lulu one night?
(a) A knife.
(b) A gun.
(c) A lead pipe.
(d) A letter opener.

2. Who does Lulu get to help her mother?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) A downstairs neighbor.

3. How old is Merry's father when she visits him in Chapter 12?
(a) 30.
(b) 41.
(c) 49.
(d) 35.

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

5. Who is Lulu and Merry's aunt who speaks particularly unkindly about Joey?
(a) Aunt Celia.
(b) Aunt Celeste.
(c) Aunt Cilla.
(d) Aunt Cheryl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Merry accompany her grandmother on the outings in #35?

2. What do people call Lulu and Merry at Grandma Zelda's funeral?

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

4. What topic does Merry lie to her father about?

5. Who is Lulu and Merry's paternal grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Merry feel about being at the Cohens' house after she and Lulu have been there for a year?

2. What obligation does Merry feel toward her father?

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

4. Who is Aunt Cilla and why does she refuse to take Lulu and Merry into her home?

5. Who is Grandma Zelda?

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

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

8. In Chapter 1, how does Joey get into the house and what do Lulu and Merry do as their parents fight?

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

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

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