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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gemma's box, found by the family, contain?
(a) Some money and the deed to her summer cottage.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Photos, newspaper clippings and some documents.
(d) A lock of hair and some love letters.

2. What does Becca make Eve promise in Chapter 6 before going to bed?
(a) To leave the items from the memento box spread out on the dining room table.
(b) To keep her investigation a secret from the rest of the family.
(c) To help her investigate her grandmother's past.
(d) To give Becca an hour the next day to ask her questions about her mother.

3. Which of the documents is NOT found in Gemma's memento box?
(a) A mortgage on the house where Becca was raised.
(b) Immunization records.
(c) A birth certificate for Eve Stein.
(d) A report card.

4. In the traditional Briar Rose story, what does the prince do?
(a) He travels the country with a glass slipper.
(b) He wakes everyone with his kiss with the princess.
(c) He turns into a frog.
(d) He saves the princess from her evil stepmother.

5. According to Gemma, at what point will little Becca not want to hear her fairy tale story any longer?
(a) Once she becomes a teenager.
(b) Once she turns ten years old.
(c) Once she stops believing in magic.
(d) Once she begins school.

6. How does Gemma begin her story in Chapter 2?
(a) "It was a dark and stormy night..."
(b) "When I was a little girl..."
(c) "Did I ever tell you the story..."
(d) "Once upon a time..."

7. In Gemma's fairy tale story, what color is the baby's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Brown.

8. What does Howie suggest of Gemma in Chapter 4?
(a) She was deluded and not living in the real world.
(b) She was obsessive-compulsive.
(c) She was living in the past.
(d) She was struggling with demons.

9. What did Roosevelt create in 1944 in Oswego?
(a) A holiday honoring the survivors of the Holocaust.
(b) A library honoring the soldiers fighting in WWII.
(c) A bomb shelter.
(d) A war refugee shelter.

10. What does Becca do in the middle of the night in Chapter 6?
(a) Writes in her diary.
(b) Organizes the contents of Gemma's memento box.
(c) Visits her grandmother's grave.
(d) Writes a list of things she hopes to do before she dies.

11. What had Becca's first article at her present job been about?
(a) The opening of a new school.
(b) A traveling circus.
(c) A refugee's personal story.
(d) A battered women's shelter.

12. What is the name Becca has given to her worn out car?
(a) Bug.
(b) Lemon.
(c) Suzie Q.
(d) Rocinante.

13. At what point in her story does Gemma shudder in Chapter 3?
(a) When she speaks of the terrible storm.
(b) When she speaks of the insect invasion.
(c) When she speaks of the bad smell.
(d) When she speaks of the curse.

14. Why has Eve always thought that Gemma took the nickname of Dawna?
(a) It was easy to pronounce and spell.
(b) So that the two of them could be Dawn and Eve.
(c) Because it was the name of Gemma's mother.
(d) Dawn was her favorite time of day.

15. What is the name on the paper documenting the arrival of a refugee into America?
(a) Aneila Brauer.
(b) Oleksa Eidelberg.
(c) Rosalia Wysocki.
(d) Gitl Mandlestein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Becca find odd about Gemma's memento box in Chapter 8?

2. What is Howie's profession?

3. What has Eve always thought to be Gemma's real name?

4. What does Becca think about Gemma's version of the Briar Rose story?

5. Who does Gemma tell the fairy tale story to in Chapter 5?

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