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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 Juli's father ask her one day that upsets her?
(a) Why her best girl friend has not been around lately.
(b) If Bryce is a gentleman with her.
(c) Why she does not have many friends.
(d) Why she likes Bryce so much.

2. What does Bryce's grandfather know concerning Bryce and Juli?
(a) That Bryce has been throwing out the eggs.
(b) That Bryce will never really understand Juli.
(c) That Juli has stopped wanting Bryce to like her.
(d) That Juli has finally seen Bryce for who he really is.

3. How does Bryce learn about an article in the paper about Juli?
(a) Juli.
(b) The teacher annouces it in class.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) He reads it in the paper.

4. Where is Julie when they came to cut down the tree?
(a) At city hall filing a protest.
(b) Up in the tree.
(c) At Bryce's house.
(d) At home sick.

5. Where does Juli Baker live?
(a) Five houses down and around the corner from Bryce.
(b) Across the street from Bryce.
(c) In the town where Bryce's family just left.
(d) On the other side of town where Bryce's family just moved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bryce notice Juli doing?

2. What does the teacher tell Juli not to expect concerning the eggs?

3. What do the live chickens attract?

4. Why does Julie climb it?

5. What is in the sycamore tree one day that Juli thinks is lucky?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Juli "befriend" the old sycamore tree?

2. What bothers Bryce one day when he goes to the Baker's to get his sister?

3. What changes happen when Bryce is in the seventh grade?

4. How does Bryce learn about the condition of Juli's backyard?

5. Why does Juli stay up in the tree one day instead of getting on the bus?

6. What does Bryce's grandfather point out about Juli in the newspaper?

7. What does Juli's father do for a living and for a hobby?

8. What happens when Bryce is seven and why is he upset about the process of moving in?

9. How does Bryce's father help him and his older sister hinder him in his hiding efforts?

10. Describe the conversation Juli and her father have about Bryce.

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