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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 do Annie and her mother do when they get home after Annie's second visit to St. John's?
(a) They talk to Annie's grandmother.
(b) Annie's mother plays the piano and Annie sings.
(c) Read together.
(d) Eat supper silently.

2. Why can't Annie hide the fact that she's been visiting St. John's from her mother any longer?
(a) Someone calls her mother and tells her that Annie has been at the hospital.
(b) Annie's father informs her mother that Annie has been at the hospital.
(c) Her mother is home.
(d) A neighbor tells Annie's mother that Annie has been at the hospital.

3. After arguing with her mother about St. John's, Annie goes to her room to think. What interrupts Annie's thoughts?
(a) Her father comes home.
(b) Her mother asks her to listen to a new piece of music.
(c) Her mother's voice and noises in the house.
(d) Her grandmother comes over.

4. After Annie's second visit to St. John's, what does she wonder about her mother's views?
(a) Why music is such a large part of her mother's life.
(b) Why she and her mother don't spend more time together.
(c) Why her mother is so opposed to to St. John's and the men there.
(d) Why her mother is so tired.

5. Who is Ruth?
(a) Annie's mother's friend and a librarian.
(b) A friend of Annie's grandmother.
(c) Annie's mother's friend and a muscian.
(d) The mother of one of Annie's school friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Annie's mother not want Annie to visit St. John's for a third time?

2. Why does Annie spend a lot of time alone now that it is summer?

3. What does Annie begin to realize about her mother and her mother's behavior after her second visit to St. John's?

4. Why doesn't Annie's mother wish to discuss the war or its aftermath?

5. Why is Annie so interested in the things that Ruth shows her?

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