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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who reads the newspaper to Penny while she is in the hospital?
(a) Mr. Mulligan.
(b) Nurse Rita.
(c) Pop-pop.
(d) Her mother, Eleanor.

2. What does the funeral director threaten Frankie with due to his misbehavior?
(a) To ask him to leave.
(b) To take his transistor radio away from him.
(c) To call the police.
(d) To kill him.

3. Which of the following activities is part of the "perfect day" that Penny spends with her Uncle Dominic?
(a) Bump into their favorite baseball player while on a walk.
(b) Eat Chinese food.
(c) Enjoy the rides on the boardwalk.
(d) Enjoy a tour of Ebbets Field.

4. What, to Penny's surprise, does she find that she misses while she is in the hospital?
(a) Playing ball with Frankie.
(b) School.
(c) Me-me's banana pancakes.
(d) Sitting in the Plymouth RoadKing with Uncle Dominic.

5. Which of the following activities does Penny find difficult to do while she is in the hospital?
(a) Scratch.
(b) See.
(c) Turn her head to the left or right.
(d) Talk.

6. What is Penny doing when she acknowledges that Heaven could not provide anything better than what she is enjoying at the moment?
(a) She is watching the Dodgers play ball.
(b) She is receiving gift after gift at her birthday party.
(c) She is sitting at the dinner table with Pop-pop, Me-me and her mom, Eleanor.
(d) She is blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.

7. Who finally tells Penny the truth about the situation surrounding her father's death?
(a) Uncle Dominic.
(b) Aunt Gina.
(c) Cousin Benny.
(d) Aunt Fulvia.

8. What does Me-me fix for Penny's twelfth birthday breakfast?
(a) Apple strudel and pork sausage.
(b) Porridge with strawberries.
(c) Banana pancakes.
(d) Ham and eggs.

9. Whom of the following asks a nurse whether Penny's father was really a spy?
(a) A man named Harvey.
(b) A man named Wade.
(c) A man named Marvin.
(d) A man named Winston.

10. Who manages to get an all-access pass to visit Penny in her hospital room at any time?
(a) Me-me.
(b) Pop-pop.
(c) Frankie.
(d) Uncle Ralphie.

11. What is the ailment that appears to be claiming the life of the young girl dying in Penny's ward?
(a) Blood cancer.
(b) Heart trouble.
(c) Hardening of the arteries.
(d) Tuberculosis.

12. What color have the walls in Penny's room been painted to prior to her return home from the hospital?
(a) Lavender.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Turquoise.
(d) Beige.

13. Which of the following two questions is Penny being asked covertly every time that she is visited at the hospital by a friend or relative, and asked how she is feeling?
(a) Are you depressed?
(b) Is the doctor going to perform surgery on you?
(c) Are you bored after having spent so many days here?
(d) Can you move your fingers yet?

14. Whom of the following painted Penny's room in anticipation of her return home from the hospital?
(a) Mr. Mulligan.
(b) Uncle Dominic.
(c) Pop-pop.
(d) Uncle Ralphie.

15. Where is Me-me when Penny gets home from the wake?
(a) In the living room.
(b) In the bedroom.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the dining room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives Penny and her family to the funeral home for her deceased relative's wake?

2. What month of the year is Penny finally released from the hospital?

3. What does Penny's mother not have the opportunity to give Penny on her birthday?

4. Who does not visit Penny while she is in the hospital?

5. How many times per day does Eleanor (Penny's mother) visit her while she is in the hospital?

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