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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. How does Aunt Cordelia get the bulk of her income?
(a) An inheritance.
(b) Tutoring other children.
(c) Through teaching.
(d) Through farm revenues.

2. Who is moving to town?
(a) Laura and her husband.
(b) Julie's father and his new wife.
(c) Jonathan Eltwing and his wife.
(d) Chris and his new wife.

3. What does Uncle Haskell applaud?
(a) Cordelia's excellent meal.
(b) Mrs. Eltwing for her talents.
(c) Julie's drawings.
(d) Jonathan's last book.

4. What seems ironic about Aggie in the coffin?
(a) She looks very intelligent.
(b) She looks like an angel from God.
(c) It doesn't look like she is dead.
(d) She is clean and beautiful.

5. What sort of signs does Annie exhibit?
(a) Signs of dying.
(b) Signs of undernourishment and mistreatment with no social skills.
(c) Signs of understanding more than she lets on.
(d) Signs of physical abuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julie feel towards her aunt?

2. That summer, what is happening to Aggie?

3. Why do the kids run off before they see what their uncle is doing?

4. Ironically, who in addition to others, blames Aunt Cordelia for Julie not having a party?

5. What is assumed that Julie would do at this time in her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenges Aunt Cordelia most about teaching and what does she encourage Julie and the other girls to do? How do they feel about it?

2. What does Julie learn about Jonathan from Laura?

3. Why does Julie feel vulnerable when she gets up after her mother's funeral?

4. Why is Aunt Cordelia upset with Julie's invitations and what does Julie do?

5. What happens to Julie when Laura takes her to her room?

6. What news arrives towards the end of the summer?

7. What did the townspeople think of Aunt Cordelia tutoring Jonathan?

8. What is announced a few weeks after the children discover Uncle Haskell's secret?

9. What does Jonathan say about Julie and how does she feel about it?

10. From what type of family did Jonathan come?

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