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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 was written on the note found with Hollis when she was a newborn?
(a) Please take care of my baby.
(b) I'll never forget you.
(c) Call her Hollis Woods.
(d) I'm sorry.

2. What does Hollis tell the Old Man that everyone says about her?
(a) She is gifted.
(b) She is talented.
(c) She is trouble.
(d) She is slow.

3. Who teaches Hollis to fish?
(a) Steven.
(b) Old Man.
(c) Izzy.
(d) Josie.

4. Izzy had taken Hollis to the cemetery where who was buried?
(a) Steven's sister.
(b) Izzy's parents.
(c) Mr. Regan's mother.
(d) Izzy's brother.

5. Hollis paints a picture of _________________ as she and Josie wait for Beatrice to arrive?
(a) a deer.
(b) a city street.
(c) a garden.
(d) a boat and its captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hollis' favorite colored pencil?

2. How old was Hollis when she was found abandoned on a street?

3. What name does Josie call her car?

4. Beatrice wants to take a trip to the Southwest to paint the desert and __________________.

5. Who is Josie's cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Old Man tell Hollis in the Fifth Picture, The Old Man, that no one has ever said to her before about herself or her art?

2. What does Hollis tell the Old Man about where she was left as an infant and how does Hollis try to picture the place in her mind?

3. When does Hollis first learn that the Regans want to adopt her, and what does she plan to do when that happens?

4. Why does Hollis try not to think about her "W" picture while staying with Josie?

5. What does Hollis' "W" picture represent and what role does it play in Hollis' life?

6. What does Hollis' desire to go back to the day she met Steven and the Old Man mean/

7. What special gift does the Old Man give to Hollis one night?

8. What does Hollis realize she will have to do in order to stay with Josie?

9. What role does Steven play in Hollis' life in Chapter 1?

10. How do Hollis' fears that Steven minds that the Old Man likes her represent foreshadowing for the story?

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