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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Melinda react to her parent's condemnation about her report card?
(a) She screams at them.
(b) She cries.
(c) She packs some clothes and leaves home.
(d) She cuts her wrist over and over.

2. What does Mr. Freeman say about Melinda's work in "Fourth Marking Period"?
(a) It is stiff and unnatural.
(b) It looks as if she has copied someone else.
(c) It is coming along nicely.
(d) It is perfect.

3. Why does Melinda miss the bus in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) She decides to skip school.
(b) She is arguing with her mother.
(c) She oversleeps.
(d) She is arguing with Heather on the phone.

4. About what does Melinda think when she is looking in the mirror at Efferts?
(a) Mr. Freeman giving her a ride.
(b) Pizza for dinner.
(c) A woman who is badly burned.
(d) Her mother's complaints about aging.

5. What does Melinda do after Mr. Freeman comments on her work in "Fourth Marking Period"?
(a) Refuses to do anything else.
(b) Throws the linoleum block in the garbage.
(c) Feels energized.
(d) Throws the linoleum block at him.

6. What causes Melinda to feel uncomfortable in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) Andy smiling at her sincerely.
(b) Mr. Freeman saying he'd like to meet Melinda's mom.
(c) The Principal nodding at her and smiling.
(d) Mr. Freeman offering Melinda a ride.

7. What does Melinda do in her clothes closet at home?
(a) Screams.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Cries.
(d) Sleeps.

8. What does Melinda try after giving up on the linoleum block carving?
(a) Fingerpaint.
(b) Clay.
(c) Computer graphics.
(d) Nothing.

9. With whom is Andy associating now, in "Fourth Marking Period"?
(a) The girls swim team.
(b) The International Club girls.
(c) The cheerleading squad.
(d) The football team.

10. What does Melinda call "crap"?
(a) The newest styles.
(b) School.
(c) Puberty.
(d) Art.

11. What keeps Melinda from stopping at a specific store in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) She sees IT coming out of the store.
(b) She sees the principal coming out of the store.
(c) She sees the Marthas coming out of the store.
(d) She is late for school.

12. Where does Melinda begin working at Christmas break?
(a) The stockroom in her mother's store.
(b) The stockroom in a rival store from her mother's.
(c) A fast food store.
(d) At home raking the yard.

13. What did the summer party have that Melinda's mother does not know about?
(a) A tattoo artist giving tattoos.
(b) Beer and seniors.
(c) A lack of adult chaperones.
(d) Cocaine.

14. Why doesn't Melinda qualify for the basketball team?
(a) She has too many electives on her schedule.
(b) It's only for seniors.
(c) Poor grades.
(d) She's an inch under the required height.

15. Who is Andy Evans?
(a) No one that Melinda knows.
(b) The captain of the boys' tennis team.
(c) IT.
(d) The captain of the boys' swim team.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Melinda devise a plan for her extra credit social studies project?

2. How does Melinda feel as she runs away from the store in "Third Marking Period"?

3. How do the girls of the International Club feel about Andy?

4. On what does Melinda's father blame her behavioral changes?

5. What does Melinda decide on her continued walk to school in "Third Marking Period"?

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