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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Annie find most fascinating when reading biographies?
(a) That all these characters were real people.
(b) That her own life was boring in comparison.
(c) That one individual could have such an eventful life.
(d) That they all ended with death.

2. What does Annie claim that young children have no sense of?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Youth.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Wonder.

3. What does Annie credit for luring her out of her troubled teenage years?
(a) Personal perserverance.
(b) Religious faith.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Her parents.

4. Why is Annie suspended from school?
(a) For drinking.
(b) For smoking.
(c) For skipping class,
(d) For vandalism.

5. During air raid drills in school, where are the students expected to "duck and cover"?
(a) In the school gymnasium.
(b) Under their desks.
(c) In the school hallways.
(d) In the basement of the school.

6. According to Annie Dillard's studies, how old is the earth?
(a) 4.8 billion years old.
(b) 6.2 billion years old.
(c) 1.7 billion years old.
(d) 5.9 billion years old.

7. How old is Mother when her own father died?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Twelve.

8. How do Annie's parents feel about attending church each Sunday?
(a) They are bored, but attended anyway.
(b) They are confused by it.
(c) They enjoy their time.
(d) They do not attend church.

9. How long does Annie reckon her family can live solely on the food in their freezer?
(a) Two days.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two years.

10. What does Annie claim she seeks most when she picks up a book?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Language.
(c) Character.
(d) Knowledge.

11. Which of the following diseases did Louis Pasteur and Jonas Salk find a cure for?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Polio.

12. Where is the moth in Annie's fifth grade class kept?
(a) In a box.
(b) In an aquarium.
(c) In a jar.
(d) In a brown paper bag.

13. What type of car does Annie drive as a teenager?
(a) A Jeep Wagoneer.
(b) A Ford Bronco.
(c) A Dodge convertible.
(d) A Buick LaSabre.

14. What is the oldest rock known to man?
(a) The redstone Retriever.
(b) The Labrador greenstone.
(c) The Daschund yellowstone.
(d) The Dalmation bluestone.

15. What type of Bible camp are Annie and Amy sent to in the summers?
(a) Lutheren.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Pentecostal.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a teenager, what is Annie shocked to see had gotten so large in the boys of classroom?

2. What color hair does the boy have that Annie first falls in love with?

3. How old was Andrew Carnegie when he became superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad?

4. What does cracked arsenic smell like?

5. What is the name of the pastor of Annie's church?

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