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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 3, what color hair does Mary Sue have?
2. In Chapter 10, how much does Mrs. Parks say that it costs to get a haircut like Junior's?
3. In Chapter 8, what does Gertie remember Jean and Junior helping her do at the bait and tackle store?
4. In Chapter 6, what is Gertie's father doing when she gets home from school?
5. In Chapter 1, where does Gertie find a creature that she takes home?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 6, how is Gertie working at the end of the chapter?
2. In Chapter 3, what happens when Gertie sits in the front row of her class at school?
3. In Chapter 3, who is Mary Sue Spivey and what is she doing in Alabama?
4. In Chapter 10, what does Mary Sue do when Gertie tears up one of her posters?
5. In Chapter 5, what plan do Jean and Gertie consider to stop Mary Sue from being the most popular girl in school, and why do they not carry it out?
6. In Chapter 5, how does Gertie describe her father?
7. In Chapter 10, what does Gertie do after Mrs. Spivey explains her job?
8. In Chapter 4, who is Audrey, and what is she doing when Gertie comes home from school?
9. What does Gertie remember in Chapter 9 about seeing her mother at the grocery store?
10. In Chapter 2, what is revealed about Gertie's mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mary Sue assumes that Gertie does not like her. How does Mary Sue come to that conclusion? How does that conclusion affect the relationship that Gertie and Mary Sue have in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
What are some instances when Gertie is impulsive and does not think before she acts? What does she learn from her impulsive behavior?
Essay Topic 3
Gertie is a girl who never gives up. What happens when Gertie has a mission that does not go the way she plans? Does she give up when her mission fails at the end of the novel? In what way is Gertie tenacious?
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