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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. When does Julie feel close to her mother again?
(a) When her sister and father come to visit.
(b) When her uncle takes her around to see places her mother loved.
(c) When she and her aunt look at photo albums.
(d) When she prays at night.

2. Ironically, who in addition to others, blames Aunt Cordelia for Julie not having a party?
(a) The person Julie does not want to invite.
(b) Julie's father.
(c) Aunt Cordelia's best friend.
(d) Julie's other aunt who is there for the party.

3. What does the person in #52 advise Julie?
(a) To think about how she can be loved and needed in a lower position.
(b) To try harder to make Laura pay attention to her.
(c) To forget about Laura and meet other people.
(d) To not worry and things will work out.

4. What does it mean to say her aunt is a spinster?
(a) She has never been married.
(b) She spins wool and cotton for a living.
(c) She is quite elderly.
(d) She is very thin.

5. To what does Aunt Cordelia often treat Julie and Chris for their help?
(a) To a bedtime story.
(b) To a wiener roast or fried chicken dinners for compensation.
(c) To a movie in town.
(d) To a ride on the pony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonathan tell his wife?

2. While Julie is praying at the Cathedral of Four Silver Birches, who arrives?

3. Where is Julie Trelling walking as the story opens?

4. When does Aggie die?

5. About what does Julie talk to Uncle Haskell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Julie visits Laura and Bill and what does Bill tell her?

2. What do Julie and Chris do with Aunt Cordelia every day and what does she do?

3. What is a drastic change in Julie's life when she is ten? How is she involved in it?

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

5. How and what do Julie and Chris discover about Uncle Haskell?

6. What does Uncle Haskell tell Julie about Aggie's death?

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

8. What does Julie do when she hears the children say she will be going away and why?

9. How does Uncle Haskell help Julie with her loneliness after Chris leaves?

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

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