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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Annie enjoy her grandmother's home-cooked meals?
(a) Because her grandmother teaches her to cook.
(b) Annie's mother has no real interest or talent for cooking.
(c) Annie's grandmother always prepares her favorite dishes.
(d) Annie's grandmother always bakes a special dessert.

2. Where would Annie's mother prefer that Annie's father work?
(a) His own private practice.
(b) St. John's Veterans Hospital.
(c) Kansas City Memorial Hospital.
(d) County Hospital.

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

4. The first Saturday after her father arrives, Annie's father is already awake and gone. Why is Annie almost glad he isn't home?
(a) She is still shy around him.
(b) She does not want to show him her report card.
(c) She is not ready to share Mother yet.
(d) She's not ready to talk about what she did when he was gone.

5. 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 tells her grandfather and he asks her to go back.
(d) She thinks of something she would like to ask the soldier.

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

7. Where does Annie live?
(a) Wichita.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Grand Island.
(d) New York City.

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

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

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

11. What was Annie doing when she learned that her uncle died?
(a) Baking cookies with her mother.
(b) Walking around her neighborhood.
(c) Reading at the library.
(d) Making raspberry jam with her grandmother.

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

13. After Dr. Metcalf arrives on the train, who drives home from the station?
(a) Annie's grandparents.
(b) Annie's father.
(c) Annie's mother.
(d) Annie.

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

15. On the way home from her first visit to St. John's, why is Annie glad that Grandfather and Father are ignoring her?
(a) She's tired.
(b) She has a headache.
(c) She wants to write notes about her visit before she forgets the details.
(d) She doesn't want to talk about the visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Annie and her Sunday School class see on their outing?

2. Where does the Sunday School class go next?

3. What happens when Uncle Paul visits one evening and Mrs. Metcalf is gone?

4. Who are the grownups that greet Annie and her parents when they arrive home from the train station?

5. 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?

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