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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Annie and her Sunday School class see on their outing?
(a) Broken Blossom, a movie starring Lillian Gish.
(b) Clowns juggling.
(c) Annie's pets.
(d) Wounded soldiers.

2. How does Mrs. Metcalf spend most of her days?
(a) Writing novels.
(b) Writing and playing piano music.
(c) Visiting wounded soldiers.
(d) Designing and sewing clothing.

3. What are Annie's favorite summer activities?
(a) Taking long walks.
(b) Playing checkers with her grandfather.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Reading and visiting the library.

4. When Miss Peterson makes insensitive comments during the Sunday School class outing, who does Annie defend?
(a) The employees where they are eating.
(b) The injured men and her father.
(c) Her Sunday School class.
(d) The kids who spilled food on the floor.

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

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

7. On Annie's second visit to St. John's, why does Annie go find her father?
(a) To ask him to take her home.
(b) She hadn't seen him since yesterday and wanted to talk with him.
(c) To tell him that Grandfather is not feeling well.
(d) To tell him she met the severely burned patient.

8. What incident do Annie and her father discuss regarding her first visit to the hospital?
(a) What she is going to do later in the week.
(b) Why she ran away.
(c) What she had for lunch.
(d) Annie's encounter with the man with the burned face.

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

10. What does the family do after dinner in Chapter 2?
(a) Play checkers.
(b) Sit on the front porch and also play croquet.
(c) Clean up the kitchen.
(d) Sing while Annie's mother plays the piano.

11. What did Annie's grandfather do when he heard his son had died?
(a) Chopped wood for an hour.
(b) Did not talk for two days.
(c) Punched his fist through a wall.
(d) Went for a long walk.

12. Why does Annie sometimes feel shut out of her mother's life?
(a) Her mother's frequent illnesses.
(b) Her mother's volunteer work.
(c) Her mother's two groups of friends.
(d) Her mother is rarely home.

13. How did Annie and her mother get along while her father was gone?
(a) They argued constantly.
(b) They went their separate ways.
(c) They were civil, but did not have a close relationship.
(d) They grew closer together.

14. How many siblings does Annie have?
(a) Two brothers and one sister.
(b) None, she is an only child.
(c) One brother.
(d) One sister.

15. What does Annie's father talk about in the evenings after work?
(a) Music, opera, and social issues.
(b) The nuns who run St. John's and the wounded soldiers.
(c) His experiences during the war.
(d) Uncle Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Annie enjoy the fireworks on the Fourth of July?

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

3. On Annie's second visit to St. John's, what does Annie discuss with one of the patients?

4. The newspaper is on the steps when Annie returns home from the Sunday School outing. What is the front page headline?

5. The evening after the Sunday School outing, why does Grandfather ask Annie if she is scared?

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