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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Annie buy her dunce friend treats at recess?
(a) With money taken from her mother's purse.
(b) She doesn't
(c) By winning money playing marbles.
(d) With salary money she has saved.

2. What does Annie wonder while walking home from the dead girl's funeral in Chapter 1?
(a) If the girl was really, truly dead.
(b) If the dead girl knows Annie was there.
(c) If the dead girl will come for her.
(d) If the dead girl could hear the people at the funeral.

3. Who gives Annie permission to attend her classmate's funeral?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) No one.
(d) Ma Chess.

4. How old was Mrs. John when she left her parents' home?
(a) 10.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

5. What does Annie choose as the focus of her assignment?
(a) The trip she made to Dominica.
(b) The trips she and her mother took to the market.
(c) Living in their summer home.
(d) The trips she and her mother took to Rat Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Annie know her way around the new school in Chapter 3?

2. Where is Annie's family living when the daughter of her mother's friend dies?

3. What calms Annie's fear of her mother dying?

4. Why won't Annie let her mother touch her?

5. In Chapter 1, what was Annie supposed to have picked up on her way home from school instead of going to a funeral?

(see the answer key)

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