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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. Why does Grandma agree to help Mrs. Weidenbach?
(a) Mary Alice has begged her to agree.
(b) The DAR meeting take place at Grandma's own house.
(c) Mrs. Weidenbach is her best friend.
(d) She wants to be a member of the DAR.
2. The meeting proceeds, and Mrs. Weidenbach takes an opportunity to brag about what?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her family lineage.
(c) Her wealth.
(d) Her daughter.
3. Grandma wears her best clothes for the DAR event, and Mary Alice is struck by what?
(a) Grandma's interest in the DAR.
(b) Grandma's beauty.
(c) Grandma's intelligence.
(d) Grandma's understanding of the DAR.
4. To everyone's consternation, Maxine Patch bounds down the stairs how?
(a) Naked except for a long black snake wrapped around her neck.
(b) Dancing and laughing.
(c) Singing at the top of her lungs.
(d) Quickly and quietly.
5. Who turns out to be Mrs. Weidenbach's long-lost sistert?
(a) Mrs. Wilcox.
(b) Mrs. Smith.
(c) Mrs. Greene.
(d) Grandma.
Short Answer Questions
1. By the end of the night, the two have ______________.
2. Christmas time has arrived, and Miss Butler is having the kids make hot pads from what?
3. Mary Alice works up her nerve and writes an invitation to Royce. How does Royce respond?
4. While Mary Alice thinks Christmas is not exactly Grandma's favorite holiday, Grandma surprises her how?
5. How is the crowd shocked?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Grandma's final surprise for Mary Alice? What does this reinforce about Grandma?
2. Who is the strange man who comes calling? Why?
3. Why is this man in town? What does Grandma think of this?
4. What does Bootsie bring back to Mary Alice? Why might he do this?
5. How do Ina-Rae and Mary Alice get back at Carleen? Why do they do it in this way?
6. How does Mrs. Weidenbach act when Grandma agrees to bake the tarts, if the meeting is held at Grandma's home? Why does she react this way?
7. What is the most important part of the Christmas program? Why is it surprising that Mary Alice is chosen to play an important role in this? Why might she have been chosen?
8. How has Mary Alice's relationship with the other girls changed? In what ways has it stayed the same?
9. How does Grandma take advantage of this man? Why does she do this?
10. What is another way that Grandma surprises Mary Alice during this holiday season? How is this surprise important?
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