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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 Ms. Johnson say about writer's block?
(a) That it doesn't exist.
(b) That she's never seen it happen.
(c) That it happens to everyone.
(d) That you have to find a way to work through it.

2. How does Samantha wear her hair on Wednesday?
(a) Smoothed down.
(b) In an afro.
(c) In long curls.
(d) In cornrows.

3. What does the new boy say he can remember about his adoption?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Only that his father was very strong.
(c) That he was glad to leave his foster home.
(d) That he cried when they took him.

4. What does Trevor have written on his cast when he returns to school?
(a) Black Power.
(b) Trevor loves Maribel.
(c) Names of all his friends.
(d) NY Knicks.

5. What does Samantha do when she realizes Frannie sees the hole in her mitten?
(a) Puts her hand in her pocket.
(b) Blushes.
(c) Says she tore it on the fence at school.
(d) Says she wonders how it happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sean wearing when he joins Mama and Frannie?

2. How deep is the snow on the ground as Franni and Samantha walk home in chapter sixteen?

3. Who is the singing star Frannie is in love with?

4. What is Sean's reaction when a girl asks his name?

5. What does Rayray say when he comes up to Frannie and the new boy after Trevor has fallen in the snow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what had happened when Frannie was at Samantha's for dinner and asked for chicken.

2. What does Sean explain to Frannie about the bridges and what they mean for his ability to talk to hearing girls?

3. What does Frannie think she might do on the Saturday she's planning to go to the rec center, and why does she hope Samantha might go with her?

4. What are some of the things Frannie writes on her paper as part of her assignment in chapter eighteen?

5. What were the reactions of Trevor and Frannie after Ms. Johnson reads the poem about hope being a thing with feathers?

6. Describe the conversation that takes place when the new boy catches up with Frannie and Samantha as they're walking home from school in chapter twenty-one.

7. Describe what happens when Trevor begins harassing the new boy again on Monday.

8. What is Frannie's response when Samantha says that Rayray was right when he said Jesus would not come to Price School?

9. What is Frannie's response when Samantha asks why Frannie helped Trevor up?

10. What is the argument that happens between the new boy and Trevor that makes Trevor so angry?

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