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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) If Denise is happy.
(c) Why Denise is sending her to Dwight to live.
(d) How Denise has a new car.

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

3. Why does Addie feel badly when she practices her flute?
(a) Her mom is always telling her to stop the racket.
(b) She knows Dwight liked to hear her play.
(c) She plays rather badly.
(d) Her mother stole it from Addie's last school.

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

5. Who are Soula and Elliot?
(a) The owners of a minimart.
(b) The managers of the apartment complex.
(c) The managers of the trailer park.
(d) Two homeless people.

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

7. Who is Pete?
(a) Denise's brother.
(b) Dwight's brother.
(c) The man who Mommers met for a supposed business reason.
(d) A friend of Grandios.

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

9. Over what do Addie and her mother laugh?
(a) At the way the hamster chases its tail.
(b) At a man trying to catch his dog.
(c) At the squawks Addie makes on the piccolo.
(d) The sight of the hamster crawling inside the pumpkin.

10. What time does Mommers wake Addie to say she is home?
(a) 7 am.
(b) 4 am.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 2 am.

11. Why does Addie take a book instead of getting on the computer?
(a) The computer is broken.
(b) Her mom is on it and will be for the rest of the evening.
(c) There is no computer in her new home.
(d) She prefers reading.

12. Where does the sentence "Dory is a numbskull" appear?
(a) On an old picture of the overpass.
(b) On the wall around the dumpster in the apartment where Addie lives.
(c) On one of the wheels of the trailer where Addie lives.
(d) On Addie's locker at school.

13. For how long does Addie's mom disappear when Addie is nine?
(a) A week.
(b) One day.
(c) Several hours.
(d) 3 days.

14. Who confronts Addie after she has her tryout with Ms. Rivera?
(a) Denise.
(b) No one.
(c) Dwight.
(d) Robert.

15. What does Soula say is her relationship to Elliot?
(a) Wife.
(b) Sister-in-law.
(c) Girlfriend.
(d) Friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Elliot, Soula and Addie agree that life would be empty without?

2. What is Soula doing when Addie finds her?

3. What does Dwight make Addie and her half sisters?

4. What does Dwight tell Denise he has been offered?

5. What does Mommers say will take place over dinner?

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