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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Annie and her classmates go to complete their assignment?
(a) Outside around a picnic table.
(b) To the teacher's house.
(c) Under a shade tree outside.
(d) Into the school's gymnasium.

2. Who wants to vex Annie and her mother?
(a) Annie's grandfather.
(b) Other women who had children by Mr. John.
(c) Ma Chess.
(d) The Obeah woman.

3. Why does Annie stop playing with the dunce girl?
(a) It seems shameful that her mother died and leaves the girl alone.
(b) She doesn't like the girl's poor manners.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) She is tired of the other girls making fun of her for being the girl's friend.

4. Which neighbor dies in Chapter 1?
(a) Ma Chess.
(b) Miss Charlotte.
(c) Miss Sonia.
(d) Nalda.

5. What is Annie's punishment for lying to her mother in Chapter 1?
(a) She has to eat outside alone and her mother does not kiss her goodnight.
(b) She has to do the dishes all by herself.
(c) She had to listen to her mother rant and rave for about an hour.
(d) She has to go straight to bed after eating dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what has almost everyone else at school seen that Annie has not?

2. What does Annie believe will happen if she points at a dead person?

3. Where does the John family stay during summer holiday?

4. What upsets Annie when she and her mother visit the fabric store in Chapter 2?

5. What calms Annie's fear of her mother dying?

(see the answer key)

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