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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Miss Strangeworth to say that the Cranes' baby will expect luxury all of her life?
(a) The baby's beautiful features.
(b) The Cranes' wealth.
(c) The way that Helen Crane fusses over the baby.
(d) The baby's fancy hat and stroller cover.

2. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Helen Crane about her worries?
(a) All babies develop differently.
(b) She should talk with her baby's doctor.
(c) They are just another example of the anxieties Helen has always had.
(d) She should talk with her husband.

3. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Miss Strangeworth.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

4. How old is Miss Strangeworth?
(a) 71.
(b) 91.
(c) 61.
(d) 81.

5. What did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?
(a) "Addie."
(b) "Adela."
(c) "Miss Adela."
(d) "Worthy"

6. What literary technique is used when Miss Strangeworth asks Helen if she has upset her husband by pointing out that the baby is " six months old and hasn't yet begun to learn to dance"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Hyperbole.

7. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?
(a) One week.
(b) She has never left it.
(c) One day.
(d) One month.

8. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Mr. Lewis that he has forgotten to do?
(a) Remind her to buy tea.
(b) Tell his grandson that she said "hello."
(c) Stock the brand of cat food she needs.
(d) Charge her for the strawberries.

9. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
(a) Helen Crane has referred to her as a "princess."
(b) She is trying to make Helen feel better about the baby's problems.
(c) She is making fun of the possibility that the baby has some kind of developmental problem.
(d) The Cranes are from an even older and more important family than Miss Strangeworth's.

10. What word is repeatedly used to describe the day on which the story opens?
(a) "Golden."
(b) "Lovely."
(c) "Summery."
(d) "Mild."

11. The narrator says that Miss Strangeworth's letters "dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion" (424). What is this saying about suspicion?
(a) It is flexible in the way that facts are not.
(b) It is a negative force in the lives of the people of the town.
(c) It is something that Miss Strangeworth feels more and more over time.
(d) It is the kind of thing that people argue about.

12. What does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice about her letters?
(a) She has forgotten to address one.
(b) They do not have stamps on them.
(c) The envelopes are not properly sealed.
(d) One has fallen onto the ground.

13. What does Helen Crane say she is worried that her daughter should be doing more?
(a) Looking around at the world.
(b) Trying to move around.
(c) Eating.
(d) Babbling and making speech sounds.

14. When Miss Strangeworth gets home from the grocery store, why does she not have the cup of tea she thinks about having?
(a) She is too tired and decides to have a nap.
(b) She believes that it will spoil her appetite for her midday meal.
(c) She has forgotten to buy tea at the grocery store.
(d) She had a cup earlier in the day and thinks that a second cup is too indulgent.

15. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?
(a) With a startled, questioning look.
(b) With all of her attention on something amazing.
(c) With a puzzled, pinched look.
(d) With a focused suspicion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?

2. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?

3. What has Miss Strangeworth written to Mr. Lewis in one of her letters?

4. Miss Strangeworth stops to discuss an "appropriation" with Miss Chandler (422). What are they talking about?

5. Who was the first owner of the grocery store?

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