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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Julie tell Brett?
(a) About the other girls being jealous.
(b) About her aunt's disapproval.
(c) That she is going to live with her sister.
(d) About her talk with Alicia.

3. About what is Julie wondering?
(a) About whether she will go to boarding school.
(b) About what will happen to her pony.
(c) About how Aunt Cordelia will manage the housework without her.
(d) About her move back home.

4. What does Haskell do for Katy's funeral instead of attending the service?
(a) Reads poetry in the words.
(b) Stays in bed.
(c) Plays two songs over and over on the piano.
(d) Gets drunk.

5. About whom are rumors being said?
(a) Carolota and Brandon.
(b) Carlota and Jimmy.
(c) Brett and Carlotta.
(d) Brett and Aimlee.

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

7. What does Jonathan do on many evenings?
(a) Goes to talk to the priest about his wife.
(b) Seeks out the comfort of Aunt Cordelia's big house as a retreat from the stress of his own life.
(c) Has a few drinks with Haskell.
(d) Works late to avoid his wife.

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

9. Who joins Julie doing things in the summer?
(a) Her brother Chris.
(b) Her dad.
(c) Alicia.
(d) Aunt Cordelia.

10. Where do Jonathan and Katy Eltwing move?
(a) Into a house about three miles from Aunt Cordelia's house.
(b) To a town about five miles from Aunt Cordelia's town.
(c) Into a farm adjacent to Aunt Cordelia's farm.
(d) To the city nearby.

11. What does Haskell take time to do?
(a) Make Julie a shadowbox.
(b) Listen to Katy.
(c) Listen to Jonathan.
(d) Drive Julie to visit Laura.

12. What discovery appalls Julie?
(a) That Uncle Haskell has married a Mexican woman.
(b) That Aunt Cordelia is secretly seeing Jonathan.
(c) To learn that Alicia has converted the room Julie wants into an office.
(d) That her dad plans to have more children with Alicia.

13. What does Julie begin to do in her senior year?
(a) Sculpt.
(b) Play the violin.
(c) Write.
(d) Paint.

14. Why is the little school where Cordelia teaches being closed?
(a) So that the country children can have the benefit of an education in a city school.
(b) There is not enough space for all the children.
(c) Because Cordelia wants to retire.
(d) The building is not up to code.

15. To what does Julie look forward?
(a) Living at a boarding school.
(b) Spending more time with her father every day.
(c) Leaving the isolation of Aunt Cordelia's farm.
(d) Staying at Laura's for the summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has an especially bad end?

2. Why are all the girls envious?

3. What will happen if Julie continues to help her boyfriend?

4. What does Aunt Cordelia share with Julie?

5. Where does Julie anticipate moving?

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