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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does one of the soldiers from Uncle Paul's unit advise Annie to do when she meets him about a week after Andrew's surgery?
(a) Talk to other men in Uncle Paul's unit.
(b) Stop researching Uncle Paul's death.
(c) Look through Uncle Paul's belongings.
(d) Write Uncle Paul's commanding officer.

4. Why, over the course of the summer, has Andrew's condition improved?
(a) His father visits daily.
(b) His friendship with Annie.
(c) The camaraderie of his fellow soldiers is helping him to have a more positive attitude.
(d) The doctors are finding better ways to treat his condition.

5. 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 has an invitation to play a new piece of music at a concert.
(d) She had an argument with Annie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annie begin to realize about her mother and her mother's behavior after her second visit to St. John's?

2. What does Grandfather say in his letter about Uncle Paul's medals?

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

4. After Annie learns how Uncle Paul died, why does she feel guilty?

5. What bothers Andrew about the special celebration to be held on Armistice Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ruth so pleased about the dinner invitation?

2. Why do you think Henry Cook told Annie to stop asking questions about her uncle's death?

3. Why doesn't Annie go to Colorado?

4. How do Annie and Emily put their differences behind them after Grandfather's heart attack?

5. Annie's father is called out to St. John's one evening. As Annie gets ready to leave St. John's, Andrew kisses her goodbye. How did Andrew's kiss affect Annie?

6. Why does Andrew's father refuse to visit?

7. Why does Andrew tell Annie that her Uncle was not killed at Belleau Wood?

8. Why do you think it is so important to Annie that Uncle Paul get a Purple Heart?

9. Why does Annie run when she learn how Uncle Paul died?

10. Grandfather visits St. John's for the first time since his heart attack. Why does Annie's mother drive Annie and Grandfather to St. John's?

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