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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. Why does Call not have many male friends?
(a) He is fat.
(b) He prefers to play with girls.
(c) He has no father.
(d) The boys do not like Louise.

2. What does Louise not want to celebrate after hearing about Pearl Harbor?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Her birthday.
(c) New Years.
(d) Hanukkah.

3. What word does Louise use to describe Caroline while she is busy earning money?
(a) Weakling.
(b) Parasite.
(c) Taker.
(d) Selfish.

4. Why does Louise think the strange man has come to the island?
(a) To have a new start.
(b) To make amends.
(c) The war.
(d) To hide.

5. What does Caroline go to the mainland weekly for?
(a) Flute lessons.
(b) Piano lessons.
(c) Vocal lessons.
(d) Violin lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Trudy live?

2. What time does Louise get up after school lets out?

3. Whose solo at the Christmas concert gets the most applause?

4. Whom does Louise ask to help catch the strange man?

5. What does Louise notice at the ferry when Caroline travels in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Louise's father treat his daughter's differently?

2. What clue about her future does the narrator give in the first chapter?

3. What clue does the narrator give about her sister in the first chapter?

4. What does Louise do in addition to crabbing to earn some money?

5. What does Caroline do after the Christmas Program?

6. What did Louise's father do before becoming a waterman?

7. How do the girls in town feel about Mr. Rice?

8. Why does Caroline have to go to the mainland in Chapter 4?

9. What does Louise say she is walking by as she walks down the streets of Rass?

10. What did the Captain want to do with Trudy's cats, and why did that not happen?

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