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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 way that Helen Crane fusses over the baby.
(b) The baby's fancy hat and stroller cover.
(c) The Cranes' wealth.
(d) The baby's beautiful features.

2. 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) Personification.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Simile.

3. What is the best definition of "proverbial" in the sentence "Miss Strangeworth's hats were proverbial in the town" (426)?
(a) As clear and easy to understand as something from a proverb.
(b) As old-fashioned as something from a proverb.
(c) As inflexible and unchanging as something from a proverb.
(d) As well-known and widely understood as something from a proverb.

4. Miss Strangeworth stops to discuss an "appropriation" with Miss Chandler (422). What are they talking about?
(a) Something that has been taken without permission.
(b) Money set aside for some purpose.
(c) A meeting of an official organization or group.
(d) A policy statement.

5. Who is Ethan Allen?
(a) Miss Strangeworth's next-door neighbor.
(b) The librarian's boyfriend.
(c) A Revolutionary War hero.
(d) Miss Strangeworth's deceased husband.

6. Who is the original owner of Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Miss Strangeworth.
(c) Her great-grandfather.
(d) Her father.

7. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Miss Strangeworth.
(c) The baby.
(d) Her husband.

8. 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 the kind of thing that people argue about.
(b) It is a negative force in the lives of the people of the town.
(c) It is flexible in the way that facts are not.
(d) It is something that Miss Strangeworth feels more and more over time.

9. Miss Strangeworth thinks that people everywhere are "degraded" (425). What does this mean that she thinks about people?
(a) They can be ranked according to how good or bad they are.
(b) They have fallen below the standards of moral, civilized life.
(c) They are easily led into evil actions.
(d) They try to sneak around and do bad things without getting caught.

10. Which one of her neighbors does Miss Strangeworth chat with while she is checking out at the grocery store?
(a) Dave Harris.
(b) Don Crane.
(c) Martha Harper.
(d) Linda Stewart.

11. What is implied about Miss Strangeworth's choice of the multicolored paper for her notes?
(a) She wishes that she were more accepted as a "regular person" in the town.
(b) She does not think that her neighbors deserve her really nice stationery.
(c) She is trying to make sure that her letters blend in with all of the other letters and notes in town.
(d) She has less money than she pretends to and cannot afford to write so often on the expensive stationery.

12. What do the people in town decide is wrong with Linda Stewart after they realize that she has not had a fight with her boyfriend?
(a) They think that there must be some problem at home.
(b) They think that she is having trouble in school.
(c) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.
(d) They think that she must have argued with her best friend.

13. Linda suggests that since no one in town seems to care about her and Dave, they should not bother to help anyone else. When Dave decides to help anyway, what does it demonstrate?
(a) That even the town's teenagers are more mature than Miss Strangeworth.
(b) That a good person chooses to be kind and helpful even in difficult times.
(c) That Miss Strangeworth would not be so isolated if she were a kinder person.
(d) That Linda is really the problem in their relationship, not Dave.

14. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?
(a) She understands very little about other people.
(b) She understands the irony of her position in the town.
(c) She wants everyone to have a life as nice as hers.
(d) She is a very selfish person.

15. When Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?
(a) Cold.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Confused.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?

2. What is Dave Harris's reason for hand-delivering one of Miss Strangeworth's letters?

3. When does Miss Strangeworth generally mail her letters?

4. Why does Miss Strangeworth think that she has a right to eavesdrop on Linda Stewart at the post office?

5. When Miss Strangeworth discovers how much trouble she has caused for Linda and Dave, what does she think about it?

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