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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what event does Mary Lou's family participate at the school sports day?
(a) Volleyball.
(b) Egg throw.
(c) Badminton.
(d) Three-legged race.

2. Where does Phoebe tell the girls at school her mother went?
(a) London.
(b) A business trip.
(c) None of their business.
(d) New York.

3. What does Gramps offer the boy from the river at the hospital?
(a) An invitation to join them.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Advice
(d) Fifty dollars.

4. What is the maiden name of Sal's mother?
(a) O'Leary.
(b) Pickford.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Simmons.

5. What is Mary Lou's last name?
(a) Finney.
(b) Flaherty.
(c) Flannigan.
(d) Finnegan.

6. On what day of their trip do Sal and her grandparents reach Mount Rushmore?
(a) The second day.
(b) The fifth day.
(c) The sixth day.
(d) The third day.

7. The first day of school after her mother left, Phoebe's expression was?
(a) Stoic.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Cold and blank.
(d) A sealed, thin smile.

8. When Phoebe goes downstairs to say goodnight to her father, what does she notice he had been doing?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Crying.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Writing a letter.

9. How does Sal's father describe Sal?
(a) Gullible.
(b) Spoiled.
(c) Hyper.
(d) Mean.

10. What was in Lewiston, Idaho, for Sal's mother?
(a) A new job.
(b) An ex-boyfriend.
(c) A cousin.
(d) A brother.

11. What do Phoebe and Sal have for dinner at the Finney's house?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Fried chicken.
(c) Meatloaf.
(d) Tuna noodle casserole.

12. What happens to Gram at the Missouri River in South Dakota?
(a) She breaks her leg.
(b) She nearly drowns.
(c) She's bitten by a rattlesnake.
(d) She's bitten by a water moccasin.

13. The day her mother made brownies, where was Prudence prior to returning home?
(a) The library.
(b) A date.
(c) The movies.
(d) Cheerleading tryouts.

14. Who teaches Sal how to drive?
(a) Gran.
(b) Gramps.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

15. What did Sal's mother want to do the day before she left?
(a) Look through Sal's baby pictures.
(b) Go shopping.
(c) Take Sal to dinner.
(d) Take a walk in the fields with Sal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other sons did Sal's grandparents have?

2. What does Phoebe imagine that Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway may be doing?

3. How does Sal feel right after her mother leaves?

4. Who wrote the poem that Mr. Birkway reads in class?

5. What changes as they travel through South Dakota towards the Badlands?

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