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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. How does Elaine feel about girlish things like braids and purses?
(a) She hates them.
(b) She thinks they're childish.
(c) She begins to want them.
(d) She thinks they're ugly.

2. What famous figure is coming to Toronto?
(a) Ingrid Bergman.
(b) Roy Rogers.
(c) Princess Elizabeth.
(d) Winston Churchill.

3. Where do the girls stare at Elaine from as she walks home from school?
(a) A horse pasture.
(b) A car.
(c) The gazebo.
(d) The bridge.

4. What does John make for a living?
(a) Strange shaped bottles for soft drinks.
(b) Chairs shaped like ordinary objects.
(c) Resin body parts for movies.
(d) Wrapping paper designs.

5. What is the name of the new friend that Elaine makes?
(a) Jane.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Jill.
(d) Jackie.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator thinks of time as having a what?

2. Why did Elaine paint artworks of her mother after she died?

3. Does Elaine know about the interview?

4. What relationship does Cordelia have to the narrator?

5. What are the girls playing when they put Elaine into the hole?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elaine feel when she sees her old school doesn't exist anymore?

2. What does Elaine think of Ben when she first meets him?

3. How does Elaine react to the other girls' bullying?

4. Why doesn't Charna want Elaine to be in the gallery when people begin arriving for the art retrospective?

5. Who does Elaine believe she sees when she comes out of the cold water?

6. How does Elaine feel about the women she talks to at the art retrospective?

7. What does the narrator think happens to things that are past?

8. What does Carol tell all the other children about Elaine?

9. In the last chapter, what does Elaine realize about the day she fell into the ravine?

10. What is Stephen worried about, when Elaine goes to high school?

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