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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 Julie begin to do in her senior year?
(a) Write.
(b) Play the violin.
(c) Paint.
(d) Sculpt.

2. What do Julie's feelings of alienation prompt her to do?
(a) Talk to Aunt Cordelia.
(b) Run away to the city.
(c) Talk to Uncle Haskell.
(d) Ask to go to a boarding school.

3. What happens in the Spring?
(a) Aunt Cordelia dies.
(b) Uncle Haskell is confined to his bed.
(c) Laura announces she is pregnant again.
(d) Julie's father marries Alicia.

4. About whom are rumors being said?
(a) Carlota and Jimmy.
(b) Brett and Carlotta.
(c) Carolota and Brandon.
(d) Brett and Aimlee.

5. How is Katy's declining health exacerbated?
(a) By her refusal to eat.
(b) By her refusal to get out of bed.
(c) By the medicine that supposedly is helping her.
(d) By her hysterical outbursts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Haskell eventually refuse to come to Jonathan's home?

2. What makes Julie start thinking of staying with Aunt Cordelia?

3. Who arrives at Cordelia's house to find Katy there?

4. How does Julie respond to Uncle Haskell's situation?

5. Why are all the girls envious?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Katy's story end?

2. What ends Brett and Julie's relationship and what does Brett do?

3. What does Julie think about moving back in with her father?

4. What does Julie's family do about Julie's sadness?

5. What does Julie's last year in elementary school mark in Aunt Cordelia's life?

6. What event mars some of Julie's joy at success?

7. What do Danny and Julie figure out?

8. How does Julie feel about Alicia when she first dates her father and how does she end up feeling?

9. How does Julie handle being hurt by what she thinks is Aunt Cordelia's rejection?

10. What does Carlotta think of Julie's decision to live with Aunt Cordelia through high school?

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