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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 Becca do at the nursing home as soon as she arrives in Chapter 2?
(a) Goes to the bathroom.
(b) Washes her hands.
(c) Speaks with the nurse.
(d) Greets many of the residents.

2. According to Stan, everyone knows where they come from with the exception of who?
(a) An adopted child.
(b) Someone with amnesia.
(c) A world traveler.
(d) A young refugee.

3. Who is Howie?
(a) Sylvia's husband.
(b) Becca's boyfriend.
(c) Becca's father.
(d) Shana's husband.

4. For what word does Gemma refuse to tell her granddaughters the definition of in Chapter 9?
(a) Holocaust.
(b) Barbs.
(c) Nazi.
(d) Genocide.

5. How does Gemma describe the bad fairy in Chapter 3?
(a) As the one with the large green wart.
(b) As the one in black.
(c) As the smallest one.
(d) As the one with the horns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of building does Gemma mention during her story in Chapter 2?

2. What does Gemma's box, found by the family, contain?

3. Where is Oswego?

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

5. Why does Stan plan to go to Becca's house in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. As she continues the story in Chapter 6, how long does Gemma say the cursed people in the story slept for?

2. Besides the document with an unknown name on it, what is inside the carved box which had belonged to Gemma?

3. In Chapter 3, who does Gemma say was not invited to the King's party?

4. In Chapter 4, what do we learn about Gemma's past?

5. What does Becca admit to her father is the real reason she is going to work in Chapter 8?

6. What does Gemma tell her granddaughters about the baby born to the King and Queen in the story?

7. After Sylvia and Shana have left in Chapter 2, what does Gemma tell Becca, and make Becca promise to do?

8. In Chapter 5, what frightens Becca's friend?

9. What are Shana and Sylvia begging their grandmother for at the beginning of the novel?

10. What do the Berlins debate about Gemma's real name in Chapter 4?

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