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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lessons do Eunice and Agatha mention?
(a) Drawing and painting.
(b) French and German.
(c) French and piano.
(d) Sewing and violin.

2. What is one theme the prologue says is explored?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Hate.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

3. What does Polly worry about as she wakes the next morning?
(a) What might come out of her mouth.
(b) If Eunice will talk to her.
(c) If her teacher is mad at her.
(d) Whether Leland and Lenora are still speaking to her.

4. Who wants to humiliate Polly?
(a) Thaddeus.
(b) Stew Meat.
(c) Lenora and Leland.
(d) Agatha and Eunice.

5. What do Leland and Lenora say they saw Rowena doing?
(a) Walking as if in a dream.
(b) Sleeping by the river.
(c) Talking to trees.
(d) Talking to bugs.

6. How does Sam view Henry Piper?
(a) Witty.
(b) Charming.
(c) Engaging.
(d) Pretentious and manipulative.

7. What does Polly decide to do to Agatha?
(a) Invite her over to Polly's house.
(b) Apologize.
(c) Ignore her.
(d) Give her some candy.

8. Who offers an observation?
(a) Miss Morasco.
(b) Eunice.
(c) Lenora.
(d) Leland.

9. What does Polly spend time doing at recess?
(a) Playing with her classmates.
(b) Crying.
(c) Talking to Leland and Lenora.
(d) Being alone by the monkey bars.

10. What does Rowena suggest to her mother?
(a) That her aunt take her room when she comes to visit.
(b) That her mother go shopping with her for her dance dress.
(c) That Sam Waxman cut down the sycamore tree in the back yard.
(d) That Henry Piper stay with them.

11. Where does Rowena put her card with the red dot?
(a) In the cookie jar.
(b) A special hiding place.
(c) A zipper compartment in her purse.
(d) In the flour jar.

12. What does Mrs. Jerivs insist that Rowena do?
(a) Go with her father to the park.
(b) Walk the dog.
(c) Speak freely in front of Sam Waxman.
(d) Take her younger brother to the park.

13. What sounds like "jug-a-rum"?
(a) The way Leland blows into a bottle.
(b) The steam whistle in the fog.
(c) The fog horn on the river.
(d) A large bullfrog.

14. What does Rowena get when she goes back upstairs?
(a) The card she bought from Blinn.
(b) Her school assignment.
(c) A poem she wrote Henry.
(d) A letter from Henry.

15. How does Polly avoid making croaking noises the next day at school?
(a) Not going to school.
(b) Being polite.
(c) She makes croaking noises all day.
(d) Not talking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rowena put in the pocket of her best dress?

2. Why is Miss Morasco happy with Polly that day?

3. What does Thaddeus say he can give anyone for fifty cents?

4. How does Mrs. Benthorn react to Polly's arrival at her house?

5. Where is Polly playing with her friends?

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