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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first part of London that the travelers approach?
(a) The outlying tanneries.
(b) The dumps and smelters.
(c) The market gardens.
(d) The stockyard.

2. How many generations does Whittington say he's removed from Dick Whittington's cat?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Sixty.

3. What does the merchant want to know from Dick?
(a) What useful skill he has.
(b) What he plans to do with his life.
(c) Why he came to London.
(d) Where he comes from.

4. What affliction is the herb the captain tells Fitzwarren about used to treat?
(a) Kidney and bladder stones.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) Blood poisoning.
(d) Bilious fever.

5. About how old is Fitzwarren?
(a) In his forties.
(b) In his fifties.
(c) In his sixties.
(d) In his thirties.

6. How much were the chickens bought for at a livestock auction?
(a) Two dollars.
(b) Fifty cents.
(c) A dollar.
(d) Five dollars.

7. What word does Ben draw an angry line through?
(a) Height.
(b) Weigh.
(c) Sleight.
(d) Freight.

8. Who does the carriage driver tell the agent that Dick is?
(a) A distant cousin.
(b) A son of a friend of his.
(c) A wanted criminal.
(d) An itinerant orphan.

9. How does the Lady feel when a flock of ducks flies overhead?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Restless.
(d) Angry.

10. What birds appear as the weather warms?
(a) Sparrows and robins.
(b) Robins and blackbirds.
(c) Bluebirds and sparrows.
(d) Bluebirds and blackbirds.

11. What do the chickens do when someone lays an egg?
(a) They all swawk.
(b) They all flap their wings.
(c) They all scratch the ground.
(d) They all huddle together.

12. Where does Abby write the word she's teaching Ben so that Whittington can see it?
(a) On her hand.
(b) On a post.
(c) In the dirt.
(d) On a paper.

13. Why does the Lady think that people shouldn't look down while listening to a story?
(a) They'll fall asleep.
(b) They'll get a neck ache.
(c) They'll get distracted.
(d) They'll think badly of the storyteller.

14. What is the name of the captain's ship?
(a) The Unicorn.
(b) The Hornblower.
(c) The Corinthian.
(d) The Cornicopia.

15. While trying to read a psalm, what does Ben pronounce instead of "death"?
(a) cleath.
(b) beath.
(c) heath.
(d) peath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Lady suggest should help Ben learn to read?

2. What do Ben, Bernie, and Abby use to get hot water down to the barn when the road is blocked with snow?

3. What does the rooster find by kicking away straw and dung?

4. What makes the barn begin to smell like home to the horses?

5. What does Whittington suggest that Ben do to help improve his reading?

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