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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has an especially bad end?
(a) Brett who dies in a car crash when angry and drunk.
(b) Julie's relationship to Carlotta.
(c) Uncle Haskell who freezes to death in the woods while drunk.
(d) Julie's junior year.

2. What is Haskell doing for Cordelia?
(a) Reading to her.
(b) Singing.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Washing her feet.

3. Where does Julie anticipate moving?
(a) To her former room at her dad's house.
(b) To boarding school.
(c) Into Laura's old room at her dad's house.
(d) To the downstairs bedroom in Cordelia's home.

4. How is Katy's declining health exacerbated?
(a) By her refusal to eat.
(b) By the medicine that supposedly is helping her.
(c) By her hysterical outbursts.
(d) By her refusal to get out of bed.

5. Why does Haskell eventually refuse to come to Jonathan's home?
(a) He believes Katy will let go and die if he isn't there to give her hope.
(b) He thinks Katy is doing this for his attention.
(c) He thinks Jonathan is abusing Katy.
(d) He can no longer watch Katy in this condition.

6. What coincides with Julie's last year of elementary school?
(a) Uncle Haskell's death.
(b) Aunt Cordelia's last year of teaching.
(c) Laura's third daughter is born.
(d) Julie's move back home.

7. What advice does Danny offer Julie?
(a) To start applying to colleges now.
(b) To learn how to cook for the evenuality of being a wife.
(c) To stay away from Brett.
(d) To go live with Laura and Bill for her senior year.

8. Where is one of Julie's stories published?
(a) In Reader's Digest.
(b) In the New Yorker.
(c) In Life.
(d) In a university magazine.

9. Why do Julie's friends think she is crazy for wanting to stay at Aunt Cordelia's house during high school?
(a) Because Aunt Cordelia will be much stricter than Julie's father.
(b) Because no young man will want to drive out there to date Julie.
(c) Because she won't have a lot of the modern conveniences.
(d) Because Uncle Haskell will scare off any potential suitors.

10. What does Julie secretly think?
(a) That Jonathan is still a little bit in love with Aunt Cordelia.
(b) That Aunt Cordelia is still a little bit in love with Jonathan.
(c) That Uncle Haskell dislikes Jonathan.
(d) That her father is not happy.

11. Why does Aunt Cordelia summon Uncle Haskell to have Brett leave?
(a) She is not sure if Brett knows the woods well enough in the dark.
(b) She thinks Brett needs a man-to-man talk.
(c) She fears Brett's temper.
(d) She thinks it's too late to walk in the woods.

12. Who does Brett begin to date?
(a) No one; he continues to try to get Julie to get back with him.
(b) Misty.
(c) Deborah.
(d) Carlotta.

13. After Katy's trauma in the woods where Haskell rescues her, what occurs between Katy and Haskell?
(a) Katy cannot bear the sight of Haskell.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They become friends.
(d) Haskell says he wants nothing to do with Katy's eccentricities.

14. How does Julie's luck change with the guys?
(a) She becomes a cheerleader.
(b) She meets a boy named Brett Kingsman who enrolls in school when his father is transferred to town.
(c) The proverbial "boy next door" comes home from boarding school.
(d) Her brother Chris starts attending the high school and introduces her to guys.

15. How does Aunt Cordelia respond?
(a) Adament that Julie belongs with her father.
(b) Indecisive and says she will think about it.
(c) Hesitant about Julie staying there.
(d) Aunt Cordelia is very pleased that Julie chooses to remain living with her during her high school years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cause of Uncle Haskell's problem?

2. What reason does Cordelia give for declining a teaching position in the school where the children will be going?

3. About what is Julie wondering?

4. What do Julie's feelings of alienation prompt her to do?

5. What does not come about as Jonathan had hoped?

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