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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. Sam pays for ______________.
(a) Bonnie to get married.
(b) More news of Colonel Willets.
(c) The baby's needs.
(d) The baby to be taken away.

2. Where is the house Sam finds?
(a) In a poor neighborhood.
(b) In an apartment building.
(c) In a slum.
(d) In a suburb of Baltimore.

3. What happens to Louie in her first days in high school?
(a) She fades.
(b) She implodes.
(c) She blossoms.
(d) She sinks.

4. What happens to Bonnie in the end of the book?
(a) She comes back to the house.
(b) She is institutionalized.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She marries Sam.

5. What does Sam say to excuse Henny's behavior when she beats Ernie for no reason?
(a) She didn't mean it.
(b) These things happen.
(c) It is one of her moods.
(d) Ernie had it coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sam in mid-summer?

2. According to the narrator, Saul Pilgrim is the only person who will ______________.

3. What news does Josephine Pollit tell?

4. How does the narrator characterize the house Sam finds?

5. How does Henny react to the news about her father's will?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do things come to a head with Colonel Willets and Sam?

2. What is it that upsets Sam during his homecoming celebration?

3. How does Sam react when Louie tells him that she killed Henny?

4. What does the anonymous letter Sam receives say?

5. Why doesn't Sam let Louie go when she says she wants to leave?

6. Describe Henny's stay at Hassie's house.

7. How do the Pollits end up in Spa House?

8. How does the topic of poetry figure in Sam's homecoming celebration?

9. How is Henny replaced?

10. Describe Louie's experience in a new school.

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