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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. What is Brett upset about in English class?
(a) An assignment to work in class.
(b) That Julie speaks to another boy.
(c) An assignment on Civil Disobedience.
(d) An assignment to memorize some poetry.

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

3. What reason does Cordelia give for declining a teaching position in the school where the children will be going?
(a) She was planning to retire that year anyway.
(b) She wants to return to fulltime farming.
(c) She has to stay and care for her ill aunts.
(d) She is too set in her ways to adapt to the rules of a new school system.

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

5. How does Julie respond to Uncle Haskell's situation?
(a) She wants him to go to New York for treatment.
(b) She pretends there is nothing wrong.
(c) She decides not to bother him with her amateur hobby.
(d) She becomes despondent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Brett begin to date?

2. Where does Uncle Haskell prefer to be instead in with the noisy family?

3. Why does Brett come over later that night?

4. Why do Julie's friends think she is crazy for wanting to stay at Aunt Cordelia's house during high school?

5. Why are all the girls envious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Julie's friendship with her uncle important?

2. What does Julie think about moving back in with her father?

3. How does Brett react to Julie's response to his request yet what does she agree to do?

4. What does Julie's family do about Julie's sadness?

5. How does Julie handle being hurt by what she thinks is Aunt Cordelia's rejection?

6. What does Carlotta think of Julie's decision to live with Aunt Cordelia through high school?

7. What happens during Alicia's meeting with Julie?

8. How does Katy's story end?

9. How does Julie's luck with boys change in her junior year and how does her family feel about it?

10. What does Jonathan do in the small town where Aunt Cordelia lives and what do the townspeople think?

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