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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what begins to make Bug really nervous after talking with her mother?
(a) Her mother's business is faltering more than her mother has been letting on.
(b) The school has called and said Bug needs to repeat the previous year.
(c) Her mother's illness is getting worse.
(d) The house really needs a lot of repairs.

2. In Chapter Five, what does Bug's mother offer to buy her?
(a) A set of cooking utensils.
(b) Makeup.
(c) An instrument.
(d) A bike.

3. How long ago was Moira's house built?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 100 years.

4. What is Bug looking for in the attic?
(a) A stack of photos from her childhood.
(b) Old clothes.
(c) A box of documents that Roderick had about the history of the house.
(d) Old writing she has stored there.

5. In Chapter Seven, what does Bug find in her room that is unusual?
(a) A new book she does not recognize.
(b) A scarf.
(c) Some food.
(d) A note with strange writing she can not read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bug always used to do with her uncle at night?

2. In Chapter Three, why can Bug not go to camp this summer?

3. Who used to comfort Bug's mother if and when she cried?

4. How does Bug usually get to Moira's house?

5. What are Moira and the others looking at when Bug gets to Moira's house in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Three, why does Sabrina tell Bug they are struggling a little financially?

2. In the Prologue, what did Bug always used to do with Uncle Roderick at night?

3. In Chapter Five, what startles Moira terribly?

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Bug find that she needs to decipher?

5. In Chapter Three, why did Roderick first come to live with Bug and her mother?

6. In Chapter Six, why does Bug feel a bit uncomfortable with the girls at Moira's house?

7. In Chapter Six, who does Bug say gave her her nickname?

8. In Chapter Four, what is the relationship between Ellen, Mo's mother, and Sabrina, Bug's mother?

9. In Chapter Four, why does Mo bring Bug's bike back to her house?

10. In Chapter Two, how does Lukoff let the reader know what happened to Bug's father?

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