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Q7. Why is Maddie embarrassed by the questions Peggy asks Wanda? Is she
also like Wanda, or is she different?

A. Maddie is embarrassed by how Peggy deals with Wanda not because she
cares about Wanda, but because she was poor herself and feared that one
day, they would treat her the same way. Maddie is a poor girl but not as poor
as Wanda and unlike Wanda, she had a lot of friends.

Q8. Why didn’t Maddie ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda? What was she
afraid of?

A. Maddie did not ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda because as she too was
poor, she feared that she could be the next target for the girls. As Maddie
wore hand me down clothes given by Peggy, she was afraid that if they did
not tease Wanda, then probably, they would start teasing her.

Q9. Who did Maddie think would win the drawing contest? Why?

A. Maddie thought that her best friend Peggie would win the Drawing contest
because she was the best artist in the room.

Q10. Who won the drawing contest? What had the winner drawn?

A. Wanda had won the drawing contest. She had flawlessly drawn a hundred
different dresses.

Q11. How is Wanda seen as different by the other girls? How do they treat
her?
A. Other girls saw Wanda as poor and vulnerable. She had a strange name,
did not make friends and remained quiet. She sat in the corner with the rough
and noisy boys. Wanda always wore the same dress and came from a place
full of mud on the roads. The other girls treated her badly and belittled her.
They made fun of Wanda.

Q12. How does Wanda feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that
she has a hundred dresses?

A. Wanda felt embarrassed and insulted when other girls played the dresses
game on her. She claimed to have a hundred dresses in order to put those
insults and jokes away. Actually, she was preparing drawings of a hundred
dresses for the drawing competition and she referred to them when the girls
asked her that how many dresses she had.