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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 does Agnes do each night before the family eats dinner?
(a) She washes the table two times.
(b) She recites the menu.
(c) She puts out a vase of flowers.
(d) She prays out loud.

2. What does Mr. Gillis tell Sequoyah when he meets him in the restroom?
(a) That he loves teaching school.
(b) That he is on meds for severe anxiety.
(c) That he has a hot date that night.
(d) That he likes to drive fast cars.

3. What year of high school is Sequoyah in when he goes to live with the Troutts?
(a) Freshman.
(b) Senior.
(c) Junior.
(d) Sophomore.

4. How does Rosemary say she knew that Sequoyah was coming?
(a) Sequoyah's social worker had written her a letter and told her.
(b) The spirits told her in a dream.
(c) She read it in her tea leaves.
(d) She saw a sign in the sky.

5. What does Sequoyah do to fall asleep the first night he is at the Troutts?
(a) He lights a candle and practices meditation.
(b) He counts sheep.
(c) He says twelve prayers.
(d) He thinks about all the other bedrooms he has had.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Agnes react to Sequoyah?

2. What does Harold do for a living?

3. What drawing does Sequoyah see in front of the urinal in the restroom?

4. What does Sequoyah see as one disadvantage of living in a foster home?

5. After Sequoyah is kicked out of the foster home before the Troutts, who does he go home with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of list does Sequoyah ask George to share with him?

2. How are foster homes different than shelters, according to Sequoyah?

3. Why does Sequoyah not like the Bugs Bunny cartoon he saw at the drive-in when he was a little boy with his mother?

4. Who is the narrator and what is the time period of the novel?

5. Why does Nora Drake ask for Sequoyah's help, and how does that request affect their relationship?

6. What did Rosemary do to try to commit suicide on two different occasions?

7. Who was Simeon Luxe and what happened to him?

8. Who is Monfiori?

9. When George asks Sequoyah to tell him about Cherokees, what does Sequoyah do?

10. Why had George been afraid of the shed in the back?

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