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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tara fears that her parents will do what in Chapter 6?
(a) Have her committed.
(b) Move to Reno.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Send her to boarding school.

2. Tara begins to pray for people who do what in Chapter 6?
(a) Don't trust each other.
(b) Curse.
(c) Eat too much.
(d) Steal.

3. What does Emily interrupt Tara from doing compulsively in Chapter 1?
(a) Washing her hands.
(b) Arranging the dishes.
(c) Counting.
(d) Arranging the food.

4. What classmates see Tara get reprimanded by her neighbor in Chapter 1?
(a) Kevin and Richard.
(b) Sam and Chuck.
(c) Richard and Sam.
(d) Chuck and Kevin.

5. At the beginning of a narrative, what is the author's providing of some background information to the reader about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Rising action.
(b) Climax.
(c) Exposition.
(d) Denouement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, Tara says of her mother, "I wanted to run to her and stroke her hair and tell her it was only" what?

2. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

3. What school friend of Tara's is concerned with her weight?

4. In Chapter 8, Tara's father spends more and more time and energy transforming the American Legion into "a community center filled with life, laughter and piles of" what?

5. What does Tara do when her mother curses, causing Tara's mother anger in Chapter 10?

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