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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Annie's mother planning a trip the day after Annie's second visit to St. John's?
(a) She and Grandmother will take Grandfather on a trip to recuperate.
(b) She needs more books from the library.
(c) She had an argument with Annie's father.
(d) She has an invitation to play a new piece of music at a concert.

2. Although Annie is busy this summer and enjoying herself, why does she have times when she feels guilty?
(a) She burned her father's dinner.
(b) She doesn't have time to check on her grandparents home.
(c) She is visiting St. John's even though her mother ordered her not to go there.
(d) She isn't getting all the chores done at home.

3. How does Annie's father learn how Uncle Paul died?
(a) Grandfather tells him.
(b) Andrew tells him.
(c) Timothy tells him.
(d) Annie tells him.

4. What does Annie do each day now that her mother has been gone for a few days?
(a) Play the piano.
(b) Visit St. John's to see Andrew and help the nuns.
(c) Visit friends.
(d) Go to the library to see Ruth.

5. How will Annie find out if the surgery is a success?
(a) Her father will call her from the hospital.
(b) She will find out when she visits again.
(c) One of the nuns will call her after the surgery.
(d) Timothy will call her after the surgery.

6. Who tells Annie how Uncle Paul died?
(a) Timothy.
(b) A lieutenant who served under Uncle Paul.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Her father.

7. Why is the date of Uncle Paul's death in question?
(a) Andrew doesn't think there was front line fighting that day.
(b) The war was over before that date.
(c) There was no fighting in France in June.
(d) The telegram the family received has a different date than the date on the death certificate.

8. After Grandfather sends a letter about Uncle Paul's medals, what does Annie decide to do?
(a) Learn more about Uncle Paul's death and the missing medal.
(b) Continue visting St. John's.
(c) Learn more about Andrew's service record.
(d) Learn how Timothy was injured.

9. Mrs. Crayton visits Annie after school begins. What does she give Annie?
(a) A book of maps.
(b) Candy.
(c) A novel Annie has been wanting to read.
(d) A pre-war photograph of Andrew.

10. Before the dinner party, what does Ruth encourage Annie to do?
(a) Write to Andrew.
(b) Get a part-time job at the hospital.
(c) Remember Uncle Paul as he was and not focus on how he died.
(d) Take more difficult classes at school.

11. Why doesn't Annie's mother wish to discuss the war or its aftermath?
(a) She doesn't like to think about the injured, dying, or dead soldiers.
(b) Talking about the war reminds her of Uncle Paul's death.
(c) She thinks America should not have been involved in the war.
(d) She is a pacifist and is against war.

12. Annie is back in school now. Where is Andrew going soon?
(a) To work for his father.
(b) To work in a veteran's hospital in Topeka.
(c) To his grandparents' home.
(d) Back to school.

13. Where is Andrew's home?
(a) An apartment building downtown.
(b) A farm in a nearby town.
(c) A house near Annie's neighborhood.
(d) Near Aunt Felicia's house.

14. Why does Ruth come over to Annie's house the evening after Annie visits St. John's for a second time?
(a) To stay with Annie and her grandmother.
(b) To talk with Annie's mother.
(c) To give Annie another book.
(d) To take Annie to see her father.

15. Before Grandfather goes on the trip with Grandmother and Annie's mother, why does Annie tell him not to worry?
(a) She will write him frequently.
(b) She will be fine at home alone.
(c) She will visit Timothy and read to him.
(d) She will look after the chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Annie write a letter to her grandfather after her third visit to St. John's?

2. Where do Annie's mother and her Uncle John go the evening after Annie's second visit to St. John's?

3. Why are Annie and her mother avoiding each other the evening after her mother returns from her trip?

4. How was Andrew injured?

5. Who does Annie's mother invite to dinner before Andrew leaves?

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