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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. Who are Brynna and Katie?
(a) Dwight's cousins.
(b) Addie's cousins.
(c) Denise's two older sisters.
(d) Addie's half sisters.

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

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

4. What does Denise do as she arrives at her new home?
(a) Dances.
(b) Cries.
(c) Calls Dwight and screams at him.
(d) Goes through it carefully.

5. What does Denise say Dwight lacked?
(a) Money.
(b) Smarts.
(c) Compassion.
(d) A love of learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Addie feel about her new home?

2. What does Dwight say is Denise other option for living?

3. Who is Rick?

4. What has changed as far as money for Denise and Addie?

5. What time does Mommers wake Addie to say she is home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why isn't Addie afraid to be home alone?

2. What does Addie notice on the newspaper clipping board at the mini-mart one day?

3. What does Dwight promise Addie as he is leaving?

4. How does Addie learn that Soula and Elliot are not romantically involved?

5. Why does Denise begin yelling at Dwight when they are talking outside the trailer one day?

6. What are the two vocabulary words Addie is learning that day, and why is she learning them?

7. Why does Helena have to see the school nurse?

8. What happens at Addie's tryout for the orchestra?

9. Why is everyone happy for Addie and how does Denise suggest they celebrate?

10. What were the reactions of Dwight and Grandio when they learned about Denise's disappearance when Addie is nine?

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