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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are George's girls sulking on the way to berry picking?
(a) They don't want Lucy to join them.
(b) They did not want the evacuues to come.
(c) They want bigger baskets for their berries.
(d) They don't want to pick berries.

2. How does Nancy Little's entrance into church surprise Willie?
(a) She is wearing red.
(b) She is with the boy from the post office.
(c) She is wearing pants.
(d) She enters without her husband.

3. Why does Willie end up in Mrs. Black's class?
(a) Because of his age.
(b) Because he can't read.
(c) Because he is Catholic.
(d) Because he is an evacuee.

4. Why doesn't Willie pick the color red for his suspenders?
(a) Willie doesn't like red.
(b) He isn't given the choice of red.
(c) His mother told him red was sinful.
(d) Tom says he doesn't like red.

5. What does Tom find in Willie's belongings that angers him?
(a) Night clothes.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A belt.
(d) A dirty toothbrush.

6. What do all of the children come to tell Willie after the first day of school?
(a) That they are upset that Willie is not in their class.
(b) That reading and writing are fun.
(c) That they cannot be friends with Willie any longer.
(d) That the teachers were mean to put him in Mrs. Black's class.

7. What does Tom think of Zach?
(a) That he is intelligent.
(b) That he is rude.
(c) That he needs a haircut.
(d) That he is too thin.

8. What is the first of Willie's drawings that everyone sees on his birthday?
(a) The pulpit.
(b) Jesus on the cross.
(c) An eagle flying in the rain.
(d) A person praying in church.

9. What kind of a character is Mrs. Fletcher?
(a) Kind and sweet.
(b) A gossip.
(c) Mean and nasty.
(d) Indifferent.

10. What big gift does Tom give to Willie for his birthday?
(a) A new bed.
(b) Sketch pads and pencils.
(c) A pony.
(d) A visit from his mother.

11. What does Zach tell Willie that his parents do for a living?
(a) They work in the theater.
(b) They work for the government.
(c) They are serving in the war.
(d) They are teachers.

12. What present does Emilia Thorne give Willie that he has never had known before?
(a) Boots.
(b) A balaclava.
(c) Clothes.
(d) A book.

13. What does Charlie Rudder want of Tom?
(a) To house more children.
(b) To cover his windows at night.
(c) To wear a gas mask.
(d) To dig an air-raid shelter.

14. What is Zach's impression of Willie?
(a) Willie is a talker.
(b) WIllie is a loner.
(c) Willie is kind.
(d) Willie is afraid.

15. Why does Willie want to cry when he reaches the gate to the field?
(a) Sam is licking his face.
(b) Tom is mad at him for going so fast.
(c) Willie's mother says running is sinful.
(d) He was terrible at running.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Bible story does Tom tell Willie?

2. What happens to Willie while he sleeps in the opening of Chapter 3, "Saturday Morning"?

3. How old is Willie?

4. Why is Willie panicked in the newspaper shop?

5. What is the boy doing at the postmasters when Willie first meets him in Chapter 3, "Saturday Morning"?

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