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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moira give Bug in Chapter Eleven that Bug feels uncomfortable in?
(a) A headband.
(b) A new bike.
(c) High heels.
(d) A dress.

2. In Chapter Eight, what does Moira bring up about Bug's house from years earlier?
(a) The time they found the dead mouse in the hall.
(b) The time Moira saw a ghost in the hall.
(c) The time someone disappeared there.
(d) The time Moira broke her leg there.

3. In Chapter Fourteen, what do Bug and Griffin drink together?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Soda.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Tea.

4. In Chapter Twelve, how does Bug describe the bad feeling in her stomach?
(a) Like butterflies.
(b) Like a cup of oil curled in her gut.
(c) Like a bike chain coiled in her gut.
(d) Like a snake.

5. In Chapter Fourteen, what does Sabrina say when Bug says she thinks Roderick might have been transgender?
(a) He was, but he did not want them to know.
(b) He might have been.
(c) Roderick always knew who he was, and he was likely not transgender.
(d) He had some friends who were transgender.

6. What book does Ellen give to Bug's mother to read?
(a) Odenkirk.
(b) On Death and Dying.
(c) Lively and Free.
(d) The Seven Stages of Grief.

7. What quote did Uncle Roderick include in his yearbook?
(a) Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
(b) Be true to yourself; you're all you've got.
(c) Carpe diem.
(d) Pennies and swine make time in nine.

8. What does Bug think Moira's house looks like?
(a) A candy store.
(b) A funeral home.
(c) A dance studio.
(d) A futuristic gingerbread house.

9. When does Bug stay in the creek until?
(a) Moira comes to get her.
(b) She throws up.
(c) It is pitch dark.
(d) She starts to shiver.

10. In Chapter Eight, what does Bug find in her sock drawer?
(a) A hairband.
(b) A penny.
(c) A snake.
(d) Uncle Roderick's year book.

11. In Chapter Thirteen, what do Roderick's shirts smell like?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Leaves.
(c) The sun.
(d) Him.

12. What book does the new person Bug meets in Chapter Ten take out?
(a) The mystery.
(b) The sci-fi novel.
(c) The only one Bug wanted to take too.
(d) The romance novel.

13. What does Sabrina say when Bug worries what Sabrina would have said if Roderick was transgender?
(a) She would have had the most beautiful sister in the world.
(b) She would have moved out of the house.
(c) She would have taken some time to adjust but then been just fine.
(d) She would have looked up information about it in the library.

14. In Chapter Nine, why does Bug's mother leave her on her own for dinner?
(a) She has a business meeting with Ellen.
(b) She is going on a vacation with a friend.
(c) She is going on a date.
(d) She is going to a library meeting.

15. In Chapter Twelve, why does Bug not want her mother to see her in the dress?
(a) She does not want her mother to tell her how bad she looks in it.
(b) She does not want her mother to cry.
(c) She does not want her mother to tell her how nice she looks in it.
(d) She does not want her mother to think she bought it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Nine, what does Sabrina say they might have to do to make ends meet?

2. What does Bug ask her mother to bring back for her after dinner in Chapter Nine?

3. What does Bug help Griffin do in Chapter Fourteen?

4. In Chapter Eleven, what do Bug and Moira use to try to contact Roderick?

5. When did Bug's grandparents buy the house?

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