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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Margaret's brother Jonathan doing for the war in Chapter 15?

2. What does Miss Smith give Jamie and Ada to wear in Chapter 7?

3. In Chapter 19, what foreign language does Miss Smith know?

4. What month is it in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 9, what does Jamie break when Miss Smith will not give him more ham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ada see that Jamie has to describe for her and how does he describe it in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 20, how does Ada feel when Miss Smith puts her arm around Ada?

3. In Chapter 16, why is Miss Smith worried about Ada?

4. Why does Miss Smith accuse Ada of lying in Chapter 16?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Ada do when she goes outside?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 15, what happens when a plane screams overhead?

7. How does Ada help Margaret in Chapter 15?

8. In Chapter 2, where does Ada's mother send her when she wants to punish Ada?

9. In Chapter 18, what does Ada notice about tables at the tea shop, and what does she think when Miss Smith explains?

10. In Chapter 1, what does Ada's mother do when she goes to the window?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why has Ada spent her life in seclusion until she is evacuated, and how has the seclusion affected her development and her life?

Essay Topic 2

Both Ada and Miss Smith have handicaps. What handicaps do they both have, and how do those handicaps affect their lives and how they respond to life?

Essay Topic 3

The author tells the story from Ada’s point of view. How does telling the story from Ada’s point of view help develop Ada as a character and help readers identify with her and her struggles?

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