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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. Why does Annie's mother often leave the room when Annie's father talks about his work?
(a) She doesn't want to hear anything about the wounded soldiers.
(b) She's tired and goes to bed early.
(c) She has a piece of music to finish.
(d) She likes to read for a while before she retires for the evening.

2. Annie runs away from one of the patients on her first visit to St. John's. Why does she go back?
(a) She drops her book and goes back to get it.
(b) Her father asks her to go back.
(c) She tells her grandfather and he asks her to go back.
(d) She thinks of something she would like to ask the soldier.

3. As the days pass since her grandparents and mother left, what does Annie begin to dread?
(a) Visiting Andrew and Timothy.
(b) Her mother's return.
(c) Learning more about Uncle Paul's death.
(d) The beginning of another school year.

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

5. Why is Annie's mother planning a trip the day after Annie's second visit to St. John's?
(a) She and Grandmother will take Grandfather on a trip to recuperate.
(b) She has an invitation to play a new piece of music at a concert.
(c) She needs more books from the library.
(d) She had an argument with Annie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annie's father talk about in the evenings after work?

2. Who takes Annie to St. John's the first time she visits?

3. After arguing with her mother about St. John's, Annie goes to her room to think. What interrupts Annie's thoughts?

4. It is almost time for Annie's mother to return home. What season of the year is ending?

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

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