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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Addie remember about Grandio's friend?
(a) Grandio's friend is a doctor.
(b) The friend died of cancer.
(c) The friend is ill.
(d) The friend helped Grandio when Grandio was dying of cancer.

2. What does Denise say is the reason she felt alright about disappearing?
(a) The neighbors were keeping an eye on the place.
(b) Addie is old for her age.
(c) Addie had a list of numbers to call for help.
(d) Addie was on break and could care for the Littles.

3. What does Addie say she does not want to know when Mommers drives her to school?
(a) Why Denise was gone for so long.
(b) How Denise has a new car.
(c) Why Denise is sending her to Dwight to live.
(d) If Denise is happy.

4. What is Empty Acre?
(a) A small park with nothing in it.
(b) The vacant lot across the street from Addie's home.
(c) A small, grassy area with a pond about two blocks from Addie's home.
(d) The name of the bar Denise frequents.

5. What does Rick call Elliot?
(a) A dreamer.
(b) A jerk.
(c) A realist.
(d) The love of his life.

6. What time does Addie's mother awaken?
(a) About 10 in the morning.
(b) 4 in the afternoon.
(c) Around noon.
(d) Early in the morning.

7. How does Addie feel about her new home?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Scared.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Excited.

8. How do Soula and Elliot act to Addie?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Mean.

9. Why does Addie get scared later that evening?
(a) The phone rings unexpectedly.
(b) Her mom is not home by midnight.
(c) She hears some police and ambulance sirens.
(d) She hears someone yelling outside.

10. How does Dwight react when he learns Denise is gone?
(a) He feels sorry for Denise.
(b) He is supportive.
(c) He is enraged.
(d) He thinks it's good riddance.

11. What does Dwight tell Denise he has been offered?
(a) An out-of-town job.
(b) A different job but at the same location.
(c) A swap for his house.
(d) A promotion at the factory.

12. What does Addie find when she returns home after showing off her hamster?
(a) Her mother is talking to Dwight on the phone.
(b) Her mother is asleep.
(c) Something is burning on the stove.
(d) Her mother is dressed up to leave for the evening.

13. What has changed as far as money for Denise and Addie?
(a) They have even less than before.
(b) Dwight is handing over the money to Addie instead of Denise.
(c) Denise has received a significant inheritance from a distant relative.
(d) Denise is bringing money home regularly.

14. What does Denise do on Monday morning when Addie is leaving for school?
(a) Calls and says to stay with Soula and Elliot.
(b) Arrives in a very disheveled state.
(c) Calls and says Dwight is going to be picking her up after school.
(d) Pulls up in a new car.

15. What does Mommers yell at Addie and tell her to clean up?
(a) The bathroom sink.
(b) The rotted pumpkin.
(c) The kitchen counters.
(d) The refrigerator.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Addie and her mother different?

2. What does Soula say kept reappearing?

3. Where does the sentence "Dory is a numbskull" appear?

4. About what smell does Denise complain when she gets home?

5. What does Addie's mother forbid her to do?

(see the answer keys)

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