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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When her father was gone, what time of day did Annie most miss her father?
(a) Morning at breakfast, when they discussed plans for the day.
(b) Lunches on Saturday when they would have picnics.
(c) Evening, when she would run to meet him after work.
(d) Afternoons when her father would pick her up from school.

2. What does Annie do when her mother is working or playing the piano?
(a) Plays with friends.
(b) Visits her grandparents or plays alone.
(c) Plays duets with her mother.
(d) Writes in her journal.

3. What horrifies Annie at the train station?
(a) Seeing Uncle Paul's body.
(b) A fight between two soldiers.
(c) A terrible accident at the station.
(d) The wounded men and their blank stares.

4. During the Sunday School outing, what does Miss Peterson tell Annie?
(a) Annie's father should have his own practice.
(b) Annie's father should be working at the county hospital.
(c) Annie's father should not be associating with Catholics.
(d) That she is glad that Annie's father is working at St. John's.

5. Grandfather and Dr. Metcalf are out walking the morning after Dr. Metcalf's return. Why does Grandfather tell Dr. Metcalf he is a brave man?
(a) Dr. Metcalf has accepted a job that Mrs. Metcalf does not approve of.
(b) Dr. Metcalf did not buy Mrs. Metcalf a gift when he came home.
(c) Because Dr. Metcalf said no to a dinner party Mrs. Metcalf wished to have.
(d) Dr. Metcalf is buying another car.

6. What did Annie's father do during the war?
(a) Served as an airplane pilot.
(b) Served as a physician treating wounded soldiers.
(c) Served as an army officer in Europe.
(d) Served as an ambulance driver.

7. What do Mrs. Metcalf and her second group of friends like to do?
(a) Attend operas and plays.
(b) Raise money for wounded soldiers.
(c) Knit and crochet.
(d) Sit on the front porch and laugh and sing.

8. How does Annie's mother react to what she sees at the train station?
(a) She decides to help the wounded soldiers.
(b) She is disturbed to see all the wounded soldiers.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She starts an argument.

9. What happens when Uncle Paul visits one evening and Mrs. Metcalf is gone?
(a) He takes Annie to get ice cream.
(b) He and Annie go for a walk in the park.
(c) He and Annie go for a ride on his motorcycle.
(d) He goes back home.

10. As Annie gets ready to leave St. John's after her second visit, what behavior bothers her and her grandfather?
(a) Andrew's terrible burns.
(b) The weather.
(c) How rudely Annie's mother acts.
(d) That Annie has to leave so soon.

11. What did Annie and her mother talk about during her father's absence?
(a) Routine things.
(b) The war.
(c) Uncle Paul.
(d) What they would do after the war.

12. Why is Annie concerned about her grandfather as they begin the journey to go to St. John's for a second time?
(a) He is unsteady and breathing hard.
(b) He cut himself shaving.
(c) He slips and almost falls.
(d) He has a cut on his hand.

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

14. When does Chapter 3 take place?
(a) The next evening.
(b) The morning after Annie's father returns.
(c) The middle of the night when Annie is awakened by her parents' voices.
(d) Three days after Annie's father returns.

15. In Chapter 9, who says "I hope I never have to go out there. From what I hear, those fellows aren't very pretty"?
(a) Emily.
(b) Miss Peterson.
(c) Darby.
(d) The conductor on the trolley.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Annie returns from the Sunday School outing, what does she tell her parents?

2. What does Annie usually enjoy on the Fourth of July?

3. Where does Uncle Paul invite Annie to go with him on one night in June?

4. How does Mrs. Metcalf spend most of her days?

5. Who is Ruth?

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