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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 was the name of Alex's eight grade English teacher?
(a) Sister Claudine.
(b) Sister. Gerardine.
(c) Sister Angelica.
(d) Sister Assumpta.

2. On New Year's Eve, 1959, at how many separate holiday parties across the U.S. were reported dragonings?
(a) More than 600.
(b) About 800.
(c) 750.
(d) 300.

3. Where did Alex live in Chapter 5?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Minnesota.

4. In Chapter 12, over what period of time did the girls in Alex's class get their first periods?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 30 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

5. Who did Edith say she knew who dragoned?
(a) An aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) A neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the Mass Dragoning of 1955 did Alex's mother die?

2. What color did Sonja and her grandparents paint their house when they moved in?

3. Over how many months did a special curriculum about the Mass Dragoning distributed by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, undergo major revisions?

4. By the time Alex was finishing seventh grade, how much of the backyard at her home was garden?

5. At the end of Chapter 4, how long was Alex's uncle gone on a bender?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bertha die?

2. What happened to Sonja?

3. What was Alex and the other girls in her fifth grade class told when Dr. Angus Ferguson came to their class to talk about changes?

4. How did Alex's father feel about his wife's accomplishments?

5. How was Alex's aunt Marla different from most women of the time?

6. Why was Alex forbidden to see Sonja?

7. Where did Alex keep things from her mother, and what did she keep there?

8. What was the house like where Sonja and her grandparents lived?

9. When did Professor Gantz witness a dragoning and what was it like?

10. Why did Bertha start sleeping in Alex and Beatrice's room?

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