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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 Evan hear from above the basement in Chapter 1?
(a) Dinner being prepared.
(b) The sound of his sister crying.
(c) The scraping of an old air conditioner.
(d) His parents arguing.

2. When they are not selling enough lemonade, Jessie wonders why, and she finds what in the garage?
(a) A full cooler with a stand ready to go.
(b) Her reserved supplies and signs.
(c) An empty cooler, stacked plastic chairs, and new signs.
(d) Five pitchers of lemonade and new signs.

3. What does Jessie believe the new club in second grade is called?
(a) Wild Hot Juicy Club.
(b) Winter Hot June Club.
(c) Whispering Hot Jellybeans Club.
(d) Wild Hot Jellybeans Club.

4. At the end of Chapter 4, why does Jessie think, "...how come she didn't feel like she'd won anything at all" (58)?
(a) She is angry at Evan for stealing all their lemonade.
(b) She gets into a fight with Megan.
(c) She sees that Evan is still upset with her.
(d) They do not sell enough lemonade.

5. Where do Evan and Scott go to set up their first lemonade stand?
(a) At the town center.
(b) The driveway.
(c) The corner.
(d) Under a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had broken a week ago in the protagonist's attic?

2. What happens when Evan and Scott try to sell the new drink, after their lemonade runs out?

3. What do people pool when deciding to run a "partnership"?

4. What does Evan use instead of lemonade when he and Scott run out?

5. What is it called when you price the same goods for less than the competition?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jessie know where Evan got his lemonade for his second lemonade stand?

2. How does Evan best contribute to selling lemonade?

3. Why has the Treski family not put their old air conditioner in the trash?

4. Why is it strange for Jessie to skip a grade?

5. At the start of the novel, Evan is throwing a baseball up and down, and he thinks, "The thought that if he missed he'd probably break his nose made the game just interesting enough" (1). Why might he feel this way?

6. Why is Evan unhappy with the news that Jessie will be in his class?

7. How do Evan and his friend, Paul, use a certain sales' tactic to make more money in Chapter 6?

8. What does Evan mean when he says to Jessie, "In case you did't know, that's what friends are for" (86)?

9. What do a group of second grade girls do to Jessie that is very mean?

10. How does Jessie get Megan to join her lemonade stand?

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