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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother do for a living?
(a) She is a housewife.
(b) She is a teacher.
(c) She is a nurse.
(d) She is a writer.

2. What type of lessons does Annie have to take with all the neighborhood children?
(a) Piano lessons.
(b) Riding lessons.
(c) Singing lessons.
(d) Dance lessons.

3. What type of school does Annie attend as a child?
(a) A public elementary school.
(b) An all-girls school.
(c) A school for gifted students.
(d) She was home-schooled.

4. Which of the following horror movies does Annie's father have an acting role in?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Friday the 13th.
(c) Night of the Living Dead.
(d) Children of the Corn.

5. What is Mother's ethnic heritage?
(a) Danish.
(b) Scottish.
(c) French.
(d) Sweedish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are most of the houses in Annie's neighborhood constructed from?

2. When the business man sees Annie trying to fly, how does he react?

3. Which of the following types of music is Annie's father most interested in?

4. What famous park is Annie forbidden from visiting by her father?

5. What does Oma tell Annie about money?

Short Essay Questions

1. As she is drawing, what realization does Annie come to about the way children view the world?

2. What does Annie remember most about the destruction of her neighborhood from the tornado?

3. How does Annie spend her time in Frick Park?

4. What is Father's role in the film "Night of the Living Dead"?

5. How do Annie's parents feel about jokes in the home?

6. How does Annie feel about the Catholic religion as a child?

7. What realizations about consciousness does Annie Dillard make while struggling with bouts of insomnia as a child?

8. How does Annie react to each of her sisters when they were born?

9. What stark winter memory does Annie have regarding Jo Anne Sheehy?

10. How does Annie describe life for the typical family after WWII?

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