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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the way home from the train station, what day does Annie remember?
(a) The day her father left.
(b) The day her grandfather died.
(c) The day she and her mother went shopping.
(d) The day the family learned that Uncle Paul had died.

2. Where did Annie's father serve during the war?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) New York City.

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

4. Which army used the agent that injured the soldiers?
(a) The American army.
(b) The French army.
(c) The German army.
(d) Both armies.

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

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

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

8. Why does Annie spend a lot of time alone now that it is summer?
(a) Annie's best friends have moved away.
(b) Annie has too many chores to do.
(c) Her interests are changing and she is growing away from her neighborhood friends.
(d) Her neighborhood friends are too busy to spend time with her.

9. Annie is meeting her father at the station. Who else would Annie like to be meeting at the train station?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her grandparents.
(c) Uncle Paul.
(d) A cousin who served in the war.

10. 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.

11. Why is Annie so interested in the things that Ruth shows her?
(a) She loves to read.
(b) She wants to know more about the war.
(c) She enjoys poetry.
(d) She is fascinated by foreign-sounding names and exotic places that she might visit.

12. Wounded soldiers arrive on the same train with Dr. Metcalf. Where are they going?
(a) Kansas City Memorial Hospital.
(b) A convalescent home.
(c) To their homes.
(d) St. John's Veterans Hospital.

13. Who has dinner almost ready when the Metcalfs arrive home from the train station?
(a) Friends.
(b) The housekeeper.
(c) Aunt Felicia.
(d) Annie's grandmother.

14. Why, on her first visit to St. John's, does Annie run away when she meets a patient?
(a) He tries to flirt with her.
(b) He reminds her of Uncle Paul.
(c) She's shy and doesn't know what to say.
(d) He is horribly disfigured.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Annie's father work?

2. What was Annie doing when she learned that her uncle died?

3. What does Annie's Sunday School teacher find disgusting?

4. How does Annie celebrate the Fourth of July this summer?

5. How does Annie's mother react to what she sees at the train station?

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