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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 Gypsy do as Woodrow beats up Buzz in the classroom?
(a) Tries to get him to stop.
(b) Watches for teachers.
(c) Walks home.
(d) Cheers him on.

2. How does Woodrow think that his mother will contact him?
(a) With a note of jumbled letters.
(b) Through the personal ads in the newspaper.
(c) By a telegram.
(d) By a long letter sent from some exotic place.

3. Which of the following is NOT how Gypsy perceives herself now?
(a) She is more social.
(b) She is sullen.
(c) She is no longer invisible.
(d) She is more outgoing.

4. What does Gypsy do at the end of the evening with Woodrow and Blind Benny?
(a) Kisses Blind Benny on the cheek.
(b) Gives Blind Benny some money.
(c) Apologizes to Woodrow for not believing him.
(d) Invites them in for hot cocoa.

5. What did Gypsy find of her father's on the day that her mother married Porter?
(a) A button from his volunteer fireman uniforms.
(b) His watch.
(c) His rare coin collection.
(d) Cuff links that fell out of his suit pocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Woodrow now believe about his mother?

2. What did Amos make Love promise before he died?

3. Woodrow tells Gypsy that Belle is still alive because she took some of his clothes and ______________________.

4. What would people never speak about in front of Gypsy?

5. Who does Woodrow bring with him to visit Gypsy at her window in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the argument Woodrow and Gypsy have about pretty people getting away with more.

2. Describe Woodrow's behavior at the wienie roast and how it reinforces his character.

3. Who built the tree house for Gypsy and what significance does it have in her life regarding her memories of her father?

4. How does Woodrow's use of mind control help him get back at Mrs. Cooper for her mean-spirited attacks on him?

5. Explain how Amos and Love have been good to Blind Benny.

6. How does Gypsy's conversation with Grandpa Ball about beauty give Gypsy a different perspective on which of her parents was more obsessed with it?

7. Describe Woodrow's story of his Aunt Millie at the wienie roast.

8. Explain what Benny means when he says he used to be a sin eater.

9. How was Amos' love of beauty destructive for him and his daughter?

10. What is Grandpa Ball's opinion of why Belle moved into the mountains as a young woman and what impact that had on her relationships with people in the outside world?

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