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Ellen Foster Movie and Novel Comparison Questions
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This assessment is to check the student's knowledge of the movie and novel Ellen Foster.
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In the movie, Ellen's mother refuses to leave Ellen's father because...
she doesn't have the money to do so.
she will not leave Ellen alone with Ellen's father.
she loves him to much to leave him.
The book begins with the line, "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy," but the movie begins with, ...
When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.
On the day God made my daddy he wasn't thinking straight.
At the beginning of the movie Ellen...
goes to visit her father in jail.
goes to visit her grandmother in Tennessee.
goes to visit her mama in the hospital.
goes to visit Starletta at her aunt's house.
Ellen makes...
paper airplanes for Starletta.
clay models of animals.
speghetti for her mama.
a card for her mama.
Early in the movie, Ellen's father...
throws her on the couch
throws her out the back door
angrily puts her in the bathtub
angrily puts her in her mama's lap
Ellen's biological parents live in a
two story white house
a little blue house
red brick house
one story gray house
At Ellen's mama's funeral, her grandmother...
yells at Ellen's father
hits Ellen's father
yells at and hits Ellen's father
While Betsy and Nadine are in the kitchen cooking they argue over...
who killed their mama
who will take Ellen
who is weirder
In the movie, Ellen and Starletta
are enemies
appear to be the same age
go to different schools
live together for a while
For Christmas, Starletta's family gives Ellen
a microscope
art paper
a fruit basket
a sweater
In the movie, does Ellen refuse to eat at Starletta's house?
yes
no
only at first
Who does Ellen first ask to live with?
Betsy
Mama's Mama
Starletta's family
Nadine and Dora
Sho comes to Ellen's birthday party at Julia and Roy's house?
Starletta and Dora
Dora
Starletta
Just Roy and Julia
Sho does Ellen's father hit at the school?
Julia, a teacher
a police officer
the school principal
the school nurse
While living with Mama's Mama, what job does Ellen have?
working in the cotton field with Mavis
helping the driver clean the cars
helping clean the inside of the house