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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. What is Mother's ethnic heritage?
(a) French.
(b) Sweedish.
(c) Scottish.
(d) Danish.
2. Which of the following characters is described as "filled with various quaint sayings, stories, lyrics from songs"?
(a) Annie.
(b) Jo Anne Sheehy.
(c) Mother.
(d) Amy.
3. Which of the following types of birds does Annie describe as "red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest" of Pennsylvania?
(a) Ravens.
(b) Woodpeckers.
(c) Parakeets.
(d) Grouse.
4. How old is Annie when she runs down the street, trying to fly?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) 4 years old.
(c) 6 years old.
(d) 8 years old.
5. Which of the following characters has a little black notebook used for recording great jokes?
(a) Father.
(b) Opa.
(c) Mother.
(d) Oma.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Annie Dillard imagines everything leaving her brain, what is the one thing she thinks will remain?
2. During which month of the year did Hitler die?
3. In Mother's favorite joke, the one that takes two days to tell, what does the little black poodle bring back to the train car?
4. When Annie is fixated on the war, what does she look up into the sky, searching for?
5. Which book by Robert Lewis Stevenson is Annie reading when her father announces he will be taking a trip down the Mississippi?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Annie spend her time in Frick Park?
2. As she is drawing, what realization does Annie come to about the way children view the world?
3. How does Annie describe life for the typical family after WWII?
4. What jobs does Father have after he returns from his failed trip down the Mississippi?
5. How does Annie explore the skin of her parents?
6. What does Annie remember most about the destruction of her neighborhood from the tornado?
7. How does Annie feel about the Catholic religion as a child?
8. How do Annie's parents feel about jokes in the home?
9. What happened when Annie is caught throwing snowballs at a car?
10. How does Annie react when her mother forced her to greet the neighborhood nuns?
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