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The Hundred Dresses Part 1 - Question & Answers

Q1. Where in the classroom does Wanda sit and why?
A. Wanda used to sit in that corner of the classroom where the rough boys
sat, the boys who got the lowest marks and had the loudest laughter. No one
ever knew why she really sat there but there were guesses that it was
because of the dirt her shoes carried from all the mud.

Q2. Where does Wanda live? What kind of a place do you think it is?
A. Wanda lived in Boggins Heights. According to the description given in the
chapter, it was that part of the city or town where poor people lived. The place
was filled with mud which is where Wanda got the dirt on her shoes from.

Q3. When and why do Peggy and Maddie notice Wanda’s absence?

A. On Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie noticed that Wanda was missing. They
had been waiting for her outside school, before school began. As she did not
come, they even got late for school. It was then that they realized her absence
from school.

Q4. What do you think “to have fun with her” means?

A. “To have fun with her” means to tease her about the hundred dresses she
claimed to have which is contradictory to the fact that she always wore the
same faded blue dress.

Q5. In what way was Wanda different from the other children?
A. Wanda was a quiet and shy girl who had no friends. She had the weirdest
name in her class which differentiated her from everyone else.

Q6. Did Wanda have a hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she did?

A. No, Wanda did not actually have a hundred dresses; she only had drawings
of them. She was a poor girl who would have desired to have a closet full of
hundred dresses, all lined up. That is why she said that she did have them.