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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 49-114.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since Ava's arrival at Grandma Martha's, she has suffered from nightmares about what subject?
(a) Being chased.
(b) Falling.
(c) Dying.
(d) Stabbing someone.

2. What is the name of Eliza's "hotheaded" (26) brother?
(a) Louis.
(b) Edward.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Thomas.

3. What is the name of the sharecropper for whom Josephine and her husband work after the Civil War?
(a) Mr. Melton.
(b) Mr. Dennis.
(c) Mr. Rush.
(d) Mr. Geoffrey.

4. When King is homesick, Ava suggests that they go back to the old neighborhood when?
(a) The following month.
(b) At Christmas.
(c) For his birthday.
(d) The following weekend.

5. What is NOT an element of the best middle school in the city, which King attends for the first time early in the novel?
(a) A salad bar.
(b) A student-run literary magazine.
(c) Free STEM classes.
(d) A jazz band.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the reader first hears Josephine's voice, she is preparing for the wedding of which character?

2. In what room does Ava find Grandma Martha crouched on the floor, rubbing her neck?

3. How far down the road from Josephine's farm does Link live?

4. The neighbors named Vern and Charlotte that Josephine gained a few months before the reader meets her are what type of people?

5. Josephine proclaims it impossible to take what action when it comes to her friend Link?

(see the answer key)

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