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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 does Marin talk with about her favorite book?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The taxi driver.
(d) Her father.

2. What does Mabel like in the pottery shop?
(a) A vase.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A bird.
(d) A bell.

3. What is Mabel's and Marin's very first conversation ever about?
(a) Nails.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Hair.

4. What does Marin tell Mabel in Chapter Four that concerns Mabel?
(a) She has not been eating.
(b) She needs to get a job before she gets anything else for her room.
(c) She has no friends at college.
(d) She can not bear to read any more.

5. Who did Marin live with before coming to college?
(a) Gramps.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her best friend's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Marin and Mabel eat for dinner the first night of Mabel's visit?

2. Who are Gramps's best friends?

3. Who tells Marin it is really strange she has never been in the back bedroom of her house?

4. Who did Gramps mostly write letters to?

5. What does Marin need for her yearbook that she does not have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What passages in different works of literature is Marin drawn to in Chapter Five?

2. What story does Emily tell Marin about Gramps in Chapter Five?

3. In Chapter Seven, what connection does Marin make with the taxi driver?

4. In Chapter Seven, why does Marin also change her dress when Mabel does?

5. What does Marin do ahead of Mabel's visit to show she is happy Mabel is there?

6. Why does Gramps get so angry at Sister Josephine in Part I?

7. What was Marin's favorite subject in high school, and why?

8. What does Marin recall Gramps showing her in Chapter Five that she did not really understand at the time?

9. How does Hannah, Marin's college roommate, treat Marin?

10. What does Mabel say her parents want Marin to do?

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