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Ellen Foster Movie and Novel Comparison Questions

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15 Nsɛmmisa

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This assessment is to check the student's knowledge of the movie and novel Ellen Foster.

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1.

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.

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2.

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.

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3.

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.

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4.

Ellen makes...

paper airplanes for Starletta.

clay models of animals.

speghetti for her mama.

a card for her mama.

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5.

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

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6.

Ellen's biological parents live in a

two story white house

a little blue house

red brick house

one story gray house

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7.

At Ellen's mama's funeral, her grandmother...

yells at Ellen's father

hits Ellen's father

yells at and hits Ellen's father

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While Betsy and Nadine are in the kitchen cooking they argue over...

who killed their mama

who will take Ellen

who is weirder

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9.

In the movie, Ellen and Starletta

are enemies

appear to be the same age

go to different schools

live together for a while

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10.

For Christmas, Starletta's family gives Ellen

a microscope

art paper

a fruit basket

a sweater

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11.

In the movie, does Ellen refuse to eat at Starletta's house?

yes

no

only at first

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12.

Who does Ellen first ask to live with?

Betsy

Mama's Mama

Starletta's family

Nadine and Dora

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13.

Sho comes to Ellen's birthday party at Julia and Roy's house?

Starletta and Dora

Dora

Starletta

Just Roy and Julia

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14.

Sho does Ellen's father hit at the school?

Julia, a teacher

a police officer

the school principal

the school nurse

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15.

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