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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 did Alex and Beatrice do for dinner after the meeting with Mr. Alphonse about Beatrice's inappropriate drawings and writings?
(a) Picnic dinner.
(b) Ate on their fire escape.
(c) Went to a cafe.
(d) Made spaghetti.

2. Where did Alex's father tell her he had inquired about a secretarial job for her?
(a) Radio station.
(b) Engineering firm.
(c) Accounting firm.
(d) Bank.

3. What class did Sister Leonie teach Alex's senior year in high school?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) German.

4. When was an article about a raid of a university clinic published in the Daily Cardinal?
(a) November 30, 1963.
(b) November 2, 1963.
(c) November 19, 1963.
(d) November 11, 1963.

5. What did Alex feel like when Mrs. Gyzinska siad dragons did not always stay gone in Chapter 24?
(a) Caught in a web.
(b) A pig being taken to slaughter.
(c) A chicken about to have its head cut off.
(d) Butterfly stuck to a board.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name Mr. Alphonse's secretary in Chapter 20?

2. What time did Alex send Beatrice to bed in Chapter 31?

3. What was the name of the teacher who was supposed to be teaching calculus Alex's senior year in high school?

4. When did Dr. Gantz publish a pamphlet called, "Some Basic Facts About Dragons" (161)?

5. In Chapter 24, what was Beatrice doing when Alex told her they had to leave the library immediately?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Alex's father tell her in a letter about her future after high school?

2. Why did Alex and Beatrice go back to their old home?

3. Why did Mrs. Gyzinska visit Alex late one night at the apartment?

4. What did Alex remember about the two years after her mother died?

5. Who testified on April 15, 1947 before a subcommittee of a subcommittee of the House Un-America Activities Committee, and what happened to them?

6. What were some excuses Alex gave when her father did not attend school functions?

7. What did Alex do with her mother's things that she brought home from her old house?

8. What did Alex see after the air raid drill at school?

9. When was the last time that Alex saw her father?

10. Why was it advantageous for Alex to have Marla hanging around?

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