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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. Who came to visit Gramps the day after Gram was buried?
(a) Gloria.
(b) Mr. Winterbottom.
(c) Sal's father.
(d) Margaret.

2. Why did Sal's dog push her puppies away?
(a) They bit her.
(b) She did not like them.
(c) She was weaning them.
(d) She was dying.

3. When the sheriff in Idaho puts Sal in his car, where does she think they are going?
(a) Jail.
(b) Euclid.
(c) To her grandparents.
(d) Bybanks.

4. What gift did Gram receive from the egg man?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A love letter.
(d) A necklace.

5. What does Sal keep under her floorboards at the end of the story?
(a) Postcards.
(b) A stone.
(c) Pictures.
(d) A letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Phoebe see Mike kissing at the university?

2. What embarrassing thing does Mr. Birkway reveal in Sal's journal?

3. What does the sheriff in Idaho make Sal promise?

4. What is engraved on Sugar Hiddle's grave?

5. How long have Gram and Gramps been married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sal discover on her second visit to the police station?

2. When Sal asks whether Margaret plans to marry her father, how does Margaret respond?

3. Why is Sal so affected by the thought of Mr. Winterbottom crying?

4. How does Sal feel whenever she is with Ben and why?

5. Why does Sal's view of Mrs. Cadaver change after Mr. Birkway visits Phoebe?

6. Why do you think Gram is so emotional about seeing Old Faithful?

7. When Phoebe sees her mother and Mike together, how is Mrs. Winterbottom different?

8. Why is Sal disappointed when she finds out that Mr. Birkway is Margaret's twin brother?

9. Why does Ben's mother remind Sal of her own mother?

10. The day after Mr. Birkway visits Phoebe, what plan do Sal and Phoebe devise?

(see the answer keys)

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