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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marin consider changing her major to in Chapter Eight?
(a) Education.
(b) Art History.
(c) Natural Sciences.
(d) Business.

2. Why does Marin decline the offer to drive with Ana and Javier to drop Mabel off at college?
(a) She does not want to see Mabel any more.
(b) She is too upset at leaving Mabel.
(c) She is mad at Mabel.
(d) She is worried about leaving Gramps.

3. Where does Marin say Gramps really lived in the house they shared?
(a) At the beach.
(b) In the walk-in closet behind his room.
(c) In the shed.
(d) In the motel down the street.

4. What does Fred ask Marin that disgusts her in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) To go to his van with him.
(b) To go surfing with him.
(c) To go to a strip club.
(d) To go to the bar.

5. In Chapter Twelve, what does Gramps say he needs to tell Marin about?
(a) How to cook.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Different kinds of love.

6. In Chapter Seventeen, what does Marin find Gramps doing that he seems not to want to be disturbed from?
(a) Writing letters.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Playing poker.
(d) Cooking.

7. What game do Marin and Mabel play in Chapter Eleven?
(a) Poker.
(b) War.
(c) Gin rummy.
(d) Jenga.

8. Why do Mabel's parents clean out her brother's room?
(a) So it can be used as an exercise room.
(b) So they can sell the house.
(c) So Marin can use it.
(d) So it can be used for the baby when the baby visits.

9. What word does Mabel use to describe Gramps?
(a) Sad.
(b) Volatile.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Cute.

10. What does Marin ask the man in the motel to tell her?
(a) If an old man is outside her room, to knock on her door.
(b) To let her know if he has any marijuana.
(c) To let her know if he is going to the beach.
(d) To give her money if he has any.

11. What does Marin remember having in their pockets with Mabel on the morning after the beach?
(a) Money.
(b) Treasures.
(c) Food.
(d) Books.

12. What road do Marin and Mabel cross in the morning in Chapter Ten to get home?
(a) Starlight Lane.
(b) The Great Highway.
(c) Boulevard Beach.
(d) Hollywood Avenue.

13. In Chapter Eighteen, what does Marin tell Mabel?
(a) Gramps had told Marin to move out and never come back.
(b) Gramps had been stealing money for decades.
(c) Gramps had had a lot of guns in the house.
(d) Gramps had been making up replies from "Birdie," who was not even real, in the letters he was constantly writing.

14. What does Mabel ask Marin not to do again in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Disappear.
(b) Eat all her dinner before Mabel can have any.
(c) Go back to California.
(d) Stay at a motel.

15. What do Marin and Mabel eat at the place they stay during the power outage?
(a) Rice.
(b) Canned beans.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Pasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marin's experience of eating dinner like in Chapter Nine?

2. Who does Marin finally discover that Birdie really is?

3. What does Marin take to the airport with her in Chapter Twenty-One?

4. In Chapter Thirteen, what does Mabel ask Marin about when she first moved to the college town?

5. What does Marin say characterizes her summer with Mabel and Gramps in Chapter Fifteen?

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