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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth show Annie?
(a) Sheet music.
(b) Her favorite poetry books.
(c) Books about war.
(d) Maps.

2. The morning after Annie's second visit to St. John's, what news do Annie and her grandmother learn?
(a) Annie's grandfather has cancer.
(b) Annie's father is very sick.
(c) Annie's grandfather has had a heart attack, but will live.
(d) Annie's grandfather died at the hospital.

3. What do Annie and her grandfather discuss when they play checkers?
(a) His experiences visiting the soldiers at St. John's.
(b) Uncle Paul.
(c) What Annie would like to do when she grows up.
(d) Annie's father.

4. What does one of the soldiers from Uncle Paul's unit advise Annie to do when she meets him about a week after Andrew's surgery?
(a) Write Uncle Paul's commanding officer.
(b) Look through Uncle Paul's belongings.
(c) Talk to other men in Uncle Paul's unit.
(d) Stop researching Uncle Paul's death.

5. Why is Annie so angry with her mother as they drive away from St. John's after Annie's second visit?
(a) Annie was just beginning to get to know Andrew and her mother had ruined it all.
(b) She had wanted to come home with Father.
(c) She wanted to come home on the trolley.
(d) She wanted to get ice cream before they went home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Annie and her mother do when they get home after Annie's second visit to St. John's?

2. Why is there a conflict between Annie's parents now that Mrs. Metcalf has returned from her trip?

3. Why, over the course of the summer, has Andrew's condition improved?

4. As the days pass since her grandparents and mother left, what does Annie begin to dread?

5. Where do Annie's mother and her Uncle John go the evening after Annie's second visit to St. John's?

(see the answer key)

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