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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. When Sequoyah rummages through Rosemary's belongings in her room, what does he NOT find?
(a) A notebook with her handwritten entries in purple ink.
(b) Colored pencils, markers, and chalk.
(c) EEG reports about epileptic seizures.
(d) Syringes and cocaine.

2. After Sequoyah is kicked out of the foster home before the Troutts, who does he go home with?
(a) An old woman with gray hair and rings on her fingers.
(b) A dark-haired man in his thirties with a dog.
(c) An elderly man with a cane who needed help walking.
(d) A teenaged prostitute named Lula.

3. To what city does Sequoyah's mother take him?
(a) Houston, Texas.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(d) Mobile, Alabama.

4. How does Sequoyah feel the first time he sees Rosemary?
(a) He starts laughing uncontrollably.
(b) He feels an immediate connection.
(c) He was repelled by the look on her face.
(d) He disliked her at first sight.

5. What activity did kids sometimes do at backyard birthday parties?
(a) They bobbed for dead snakes in a tub instead of bobbing for apples.
(b) They played spin the bottle.
(c) They hit a pinata that was shaped to look like a pig.
(d) The pinned the tail on the donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of George's hobbies?

2. What does Mr. Gillis tell Sequoyah that he misses most since his divorce?

3. What does Sequoyah imagine Rosemary doing to Nora?

4. What noise does Rosemary hear outside her bedroom window that drives her crazy?

5. What happens to Sequoyah after he helps Nora Drake and Rosemary do the chore they asked him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Monfiori?

2. What does Mr. Gillis tell Sequoyah when Sequoyah meets the teacher in the bathroom on his first day of school?

3. What caused Sequoyah's scars?

4. Why was Sequoyah's mother put in prison?

5. When George asks Sequoyah to tell him about Cherokees, what does Sequoyah do?

6. What does Sequoyah think that Monfiori tries to do to him?

7. How does George prefer to communicate with Sequoyah?

8. What does Rosemary say about a dream she had about Sequoyah?

9. What did Jimmy, Sequoyah's mother's boyfriend, do to Sequoyah?

10. Why had George been afraid of the shed in the back?

(see the answer keys)

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