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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the girl been coming to the store regularly for the same thing?
(a) Since summer.
(b) Since fall.
(c) Since spring.
(d) Since winter.

2. How does Tommy describe the girl who comes in the store to buy something?
(a) An ugly girl with brown skin and green eyes.
(b) A plain kid with light skin and dark eyes.
(c) A mousy girl with brown skin and brown eyes.
(d) A pretty girl with light skin and blue eyes.

3. What does Rosa have hanging on a back wall?
(a) Family photographs.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Painting of a ship.
(d) Advertisements.

4. What does the girl want to buy who comes into the store?
(a) Writing paper.
(b) Barrettes.
(c) Tissue paper.
(d) Ribbons.

5. What type of day is Tommy having when a young girl comes into the store?
(a) Frustrating.
(b) Bad.
(c) Productive.
(d) Boring.

6. How much does the girl give Tommy for the things she buys?
(a) 4 nickels.
(b) A dime, a nickel, and 5 pennies.
(c) 2 dimes.
(d) 2 nickels and a dime.

7. What time of day does a girl come into the store?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 10 a.m.
(d) Morning.

8. What does Tommy see the girl steal on a Monday morning?
(a) Peppermints.
(b) Licorice.
(c) Lemon drops.
(d) Candy bars.

9. How old is the girl who comes into the store?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

10. What color are the things the girl wants to buy who comes to the store?
(a) White and cream.
(b) Red and yellow.
(c) Green and purple.
(d) Pink and blue.

11. What does Tommy feel like doing when he sees the girl stealing?
(a) Grabbing her and shaking her.
(b) Lecturing her.
(c) Calling Rosa.
(d) Calling the police.

12. Where does the girl live who comes into the candy store to buy something?
(a) 2 blocks away.
(b) Down the street.
(c) Around the block.
(d) 1/2 a block away.

13. What color lobster does Tommy remember catching?
(a) Green.
(b) Striped.
(c) Spotted.
(d) White.

14. How does Tommy describe the girl's mother?
(a) Austere.
(b) Rock faced.
(c) Resolute.
(d) Grave.

15. Where does Tony remember an uncle used to take him?
(a) Pelham Bay Park.
(b) Canarsie Pier.
(c) Rockaway Beach.
(d) Sheepshead Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tommy keep in the back that he has to keep most kids from?

2. What does the girl's mother do for a living?

3. Who told Tommy that he had to throw the lobster back?

4. What time of day does Tommy remember he caught a lobster?

5. Why does Tommy have tears in his eyes after he catches the girl stealing?

(see the answer keys)

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