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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sally's attitude during the ride back to her house?
(a) She's hateful, telling her mother to stop crying.
(b) She's cheerful, trying to make her mother stop crying.
(c) She's sullen and sits in the floorboard.
(d) She's crying, pleading with her mother to stop crying.

2. What is the nickname Mama hates?
(a) Lena.
(b) Mommy.
(c) Norma Jeana.
(d) Mama.

3. What does the German neighbor say when Lark returns her sheet?
(a) She hadn't expected them back so quickly.
(b) Thank you.
(c) They aren't her sheets.
(d) They are folded wrong.

4. What does Aunt Betty eat on Thursday morning?
(a) Cereal and milk.
(b) Eggs and coffee.
(c) Toast and tea.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Mama do when Lark and Sally go to her with leeches?
(a) Uses a match to make them fall off.
(b) Tells the girls to stay out of the water.
(c) Pulls them off quickly then gives the girls bandages to cover the wounds.
(d) Puts salt on them and brushes them off.

6. How many words per minute does Mama say she wants to be able to type?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Fifteen.

7. What kind of ice cream does Papa buy for Lark?
(a) Strawberry.
(b) Rocky Road.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Vanilla.

8. What is Papa going to find when it begins to rain?
(a) Nightcrawlers.
(b) Hoboes on the train.
(c) A fishing pole.
(d) An umbrella.

9. Where does Hilly sit most days?
(a) Near the front window of the ice cream shop.
(b) On the front steps of his house.
(c) On a bench at the depot.
(d) On a bench in front of the post office.

10. What is the baby's name?
(a) Matilda Ann.
(b) Martha Lark.
(c) Majorie Lark.
(d) Marjorie Ann.

11. How does Mama say they'll get money for a house?
(a) She says she'll sell shoes to earn money.
(b) She says she doesn't know but will think of something.
(c) She says it's just a dream that won't ever come true.
(d) She says Papa will win it at poker.

12. Who lives in the upstairs portion of the depot?
(a) No one.
(b) Lark and her family.
(c) Art Bigelow and his wife.
(d) Mrs. Bea, a widow.

13. What is the name of the story Lark reads to Hilly?
(a) Bedtime for Bitsy.
(b) Peggy Among the Pansies.
(c) Lilly and the Lost Ladybug.
(d) Peter Pan.

14. What is Mama doing when Lark wakes the morning after arriving at Aunt Betty's house?
(a) Singing to Aunt Betty.
(b) Washing clothes.
(c) Scrubbing the floors.
(d) Washing dishes.

15. What does Lark get from Mr. Boomer?
(a) A piece of pie.
(b) A chocolate ice cream.
(c) A jawbreaker.
(d) A soda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lark eat the morning Mama and Aunt Betty fight about calling the doctor?

2. In the letter Lark finds in the Hobo Jungle, to whom is Earl Samson writing?

3. What does Lark sing while she's washing Aunt Betty's dishes?

4. How much money does Papa say he lost?

5. What is Hilly carrying when he catches up with Lark on the railroad tracks?

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