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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. What is significant about the dress Marianne wears to the Valentine's Dance?
(a) Marianne sewed the dress herself.
(b) The dress is an altered dress that had once been Corrine's.
(c) Her mother suprised her with the dress.
(d) Marianne and her mother shopped for it together.

2. What is the name of the person Marianne is living with?
(a) Grandma Hausmann.
(b) Ethel Hausmann.
(c) Ethel Mulaney.
(d) Katrina Mulvaney.

3. How does Judd find out what really happened to Marianne?
(a) He finally corners Mike and Mike tells him.
(b) His mother tells him.
(c) He finally asks his father and he tells him.
(d) Judd asks Marianne and she tells him.

4. Who is Muffin?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A goat.

5. How does the family refer to the word rape?
(a) As, "it".
(b) As, "The night the world changed".
(c) As, "You know what."
(d) They never spoke about it, ever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Della Rae considered a "dirty girl"?

2. How old is Corrine in the story she tells about December 1938?

3. In the chapter, "The Assault," why does Michael Mulvaney go to Mort Lundt's house?

4. How is Michael Sr. greeted when he enters the Yankee Doodle Tap Room?

5. What is the name of Marianne's horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Judd so insistent to find out what has happened to his sister that he put the family in such a turmoil?

2. What does the title of the story imply in comparison to the title of the first chapter, "Storybook House?"

3. What is Michael's reaction when Mort Lundt explains that he grounded his son for six weeks as though what his son did was bad, but not criminal?

4. What is revealed about the experience of Michael Sr. and Corrine becoming parents to their four children?

5. What does Lydia Bethune tell Corrine about Marianne and what bothers her the most about the revelation?

6. What is Judd's motivation to agree when his brother, Patrick, calls and confirms he is still planning to "extract justice" by possibly killing Zach Lundt?

7. As one reads about the Valentine's Dance and Marianne Mulvaney being the only junior elected to the King and Queen's court, what do we learn about her?

8. What is the family code discussed in the chapter by the same title, and in what way does Marianne break the code?

9. What exactly does Patrick mean when he says "execution of justice?"

10. Judd happens upon his father talking to his older brothers about some kind of secret. What is the discussion about and what is the significance of the discussion?

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