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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 Ford's mother often do when she is a child and has misbehaved?
(a) Take her books away.
(b) Beat her physically.
(c) Make her sleep outside.
(d) Take her food away.

2. What does Ford often do in Chapter 1 to help calm and comfort herself?
(a) Tai Chi.
(b) Cook.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Run.

3. In Chapter 10, who does Ford's grandfather tell her not to trust?
(a) Boys.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her best friend.

4. What does Ford's younger brother sometimes call her when he is a toddler?
(a) Bash.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Ash.
(d) Hashy.

5. What mark does Ford think the figure she sees in a dream leaves on her in Part 4?
(a) A birthmark
(b) A scratch.
(c) A bruise.
(d) A freckle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ford's mother often do with herself and her brother around Christmastime when Ford was young?

2. Who is in Ford's oldest memory, as she recounts in Chapter 2?

3. Who begins bullying Ford in Chapter 10?

4. In Chapter 6, what do Ford and her family collect and take to the bank?

5. Who is Ford's best friend in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What vision does Ford see in Chapter 4 that terrifies her?

2. How does Ford feel about going back to live with her mother after being on her great-grandfather's farm?

3. What does Ford do late at night to help her sleep in Chapter 8?

4. What does Ford's mother become obsessed with regarding her children in Chapter 9?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Ford's grandfather do in front of her that horrifies her?

6. How does Grandma Billie react when Ford asks who her own father is in a photo?

7. What kind of relationship does Ford have with her brother R.C. when they are children?

8. How does Ford remember life on her great-grandfather's farm in Missouri?

9. How does Ford react to the news about her father in Chapter 1?

10. Why does Ford go to live with her grandmother in Chapter 7?

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