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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Annie visits St. John's again, what does she bring to share?
(a) A photograph of her family.
(b) Books about Europe.
(c) Oatmeal cookies and her books of maps.
(d) A photograph of Uncle Paul.

3. Who has Annie's grandfather been visiting at St. John's Hospital?
(a) Timothy Lewis.
(b) An old friend.
(c) Annie's cousins.
(d) Annie's Uncle John.

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

5. How were most of the burned soldiers injured?
(a) A bomb.
(b) Exploding gas tanks.
(c) Mustard gas.
(d) Grenades.

6. 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) How rudely Annie's mother acts.
(c) The weather.
(d) That Annie has to leave so soon.

7. What does Annie usually enjoy on the Fourth of July?
(a) Spending the day with friends.
(b) Picnics with Grandmother's delicious food, the parade, and most of all the fireworks.
(c) Spending time with her cousins.
(d) The cotton candy and the special circus performance.

8. 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 is fascinated by foreign-sounding names and exotic places that she might visit.
(d) She enjoys poetry.

9. When Annie and Mrs. Metcalf talk over breakfast the day after Dr. Metcalf returns home, what does Annie's mother say about what they saw at the train station?
(a) She sends Annie to her room.
(b) She tells Annie to ask her father about the topic.
(c) She refuses to discuss the subject.
(d) She listens to Annie and explains what was happening.

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

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

12. What does Annie's Sunday School teacher find disgusting?
(a) Annie's ice cream.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) The disfigured and injured men.
(d) The food that gets spilled on the floor.

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

14. Where does Uncle Paul invite Annie to go with him on one night in June?
(a) A Shakespearean play.
(b) A musical.
(c) A movie.
(d) The opera.

15. What did Annie's grandmother do when she heard that her son had died?
(a) Played sad songs on the piano.
(b) Went to talk with a friend.
(c) Scrubbed the kitchen floor.
(d) Stayed in her room grieving for several days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Mrs. Metcalf's second group of friends?

2. What do Mrs. Metcalf and her first group of friends like to do?

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

4. After their first dinner together with father and their guests leave, what do the Metcalfs do together?

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

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