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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 kind of building does Gemma mention during her story in Chapter 2?
(a) A cottage.
(b) A lighthouse.
(c) An old mill.
(d) A castle.

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

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

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

5. What is being made into a museum as of Chapter 8?
(a) A WWII battleship docked off Oswego bay.
(b) Fort Oswego.
(c) A dignitary's home in Oswego.
(d) Roosevelt's creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Polish word 'Ksiezniczka' mean in English?

2. According to a document found in the memento box, when did Gitl arrive in America?

3. Where does Becca fall asleep in Chapter 6?

4. Where is Oswego?

5. What is the name Becca has given to her worn out car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the documents that Becca falls asleep going over in Chapter 6?

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

3. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?

4. What does Becca do in Chapter 2, which he sisters urge her not to?

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

6. After Gemma's funeral, what do Becca's parents reveal was found among Gemma's things?

7. While going through Gemma's box of mementos in Chapter 6, what does Becca realize about them?

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

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

10. Where are Becca's work offices housed? What were Becca's first 'real' articles at the Advocate about?

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