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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, You Can't Play, The Habit of Rejection.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story about the lonely princess, the bird helps the princess find a ___ child.
(a) Elfin.
(b) Leprechaun.
(c) Fairy.
(d) Dwarf.

2. How many kids from Paley's class seemed happy about this new rule?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

3. Prince Kareem is writing a book about what?
(a) Castles.
(b) Children.
(c) Birds.
(d) Trees.

4. Who is Maruska?
(a) Paley's teaching assistant.
(b) Annabella's doll.
(c) Alexandra's friend.
(d) Kareem's wife.

5. Magpie asks Annabella and Prince Kareem why they live where there are no ____, if they like them so much.
(a) People.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Birds.
(d) Trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reinforced the loneliness of outcast students, according to Paley in Chapter 1?

2. Annabella leads Magpie down where in the story?

3. How old was the author when she decides to set out to thwart this practice of "You can't play?"

4. With a hoarse voice in Chapter 1, Paley went off to speak where?

5. Magpie and Kareem discover that they are both what?

(see the answer key)

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