The Hundred Dresses

Trivia Questions

1. Where, in the classroom, did Wanda Petronski sit? (In the corner, the nest to the last seat in the last row, p. 3) 2. Who was the old man who lived on Boggins Heights, in a “house and yard disgracefully dirty…) (old man Svenson, p. 9) 3. What was the “game” – the “having fun” with Wanda? (Asking Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet, p. 13-16) 4. What color was Cecile’s beautiful new dress? (crimson, p. 22) 5. Where did Wanda say she kept her hundred dresses? (in the closet, p. 31) 6. What did Maddie do with the note she wrote to Peggy, suggesting they stop teasing Wanda? (she tore it up, p. 36) 7. Whom did Maddie hope would win the classroom coloring contest? (Peggy, p. 39) 8. What did Miss Mason do with Wanda’s 100 pictures? (she hung them all over the classroom, p. 44) 9. According to the note from Wanda’s father, to where were the Petronskis moving? (the ‘big city’. p. 47) 10. What was the only sign of life in the Petronski’s abandoned house? (the yellow cat, p. 56) 11. After Wanda has moved away, Maddie feels terrible. What does Maddie resolve never to do again? (stand by and say nothing – when something is not right, p. 63) 12. What does Maddie do with the picture of the girl in the blue dress that Wanda gave her? (she pins it on her wall, covering a torn place in the wallpaper, p. 76) 13. What discovery about the picture of the girl in the blue dress makes Maddie run over to Peggy’s house? (the girl looked like her ‘own self’, p. 78)