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1: Why does Melinda constantly bite her lip?

a. She's always hungry, and her lip is calorie-free.

b. She like the taste of her lip gloss.

c. She wants to figuratively devour herself and vanish.

d. It's a bad habit she got from her dad.

2: Where in New York state does the story take place?

a. Syracuse

b. Buffalo

c. Albany

d. Manhattan

3: On Job Day, Heather's test result shows that she should enter which career?

a. Teaching

b. Nursing

c. Law

d. Communications

4: Which of the following does not belong?

a. Wombats

b. Hornets

c. Devils

d. Spartans

5: At the end of the novel, what is the final touch that Melinda adds to the picture of her tree?

a. A small smear of blood from her lip

b. Dried oak leaves from her yard

c. Tissue-paper flowers

d. Drawings of birds in flight

6: Where do Melinda's mom and dad work, respectively?

a. Ice cream shop and accounting office

b. Clothing store and insurance company

c. Shoe store and lumber company

d. The local college and law firm

7: What is Melinda doing when she faints in biology class?

a. Dissecting a frog

b. Looking through a microscope

c. Counting fruit flies

d. Cutting apples

8: Which of the following nicknames does Melinda not give to Andy Evans?

a. Andy Beast

b. He Who Must Not Be Named

c. IT

d. Greek God

9: True or false? When confronted by Andy Evans in school, Melinda uses the metaphor of a baby mouse to express how powerless and vulnerable she feels.

a. True

b. False

10: True or false? Melinda feels confident with the quality of her report on the suffragettes but still gets a D.

a. True

b. False

11: True or false? Melinda gains strength from a poster of Oprah Winfrey that hangs in the janitor's closet.

a. True

b. False

12: True or false? David Petrakis is Melinda's lab partner in two classes, biology and chemistry.

a. True

b. False

13: The author uses Melinda's day of yard work to symbolize Melinda's own ____________ of her soul.

a. disturbance

b. burial

c. spring cleaning

d. renewal

14: Melinda starts a list of __________ on the wall of a toilet stall.

a. "guys who are fakes"

b. "guys I'd like to date"

c. "guys who are cute"

d. "guys to stay away from"

15: When Melinda returns to __________, she ends up embracing the role of a survivor and sees herself as a "Melindagirl" seed, ready to grow and flower.

a. the janitor's closet (her sanctuary) for a final time

b. Mr. Freeman's art room at the end of the story

c. Our Lady of mercy Hospital

d. the place where she was raped

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