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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the typical summer lunch at Annie's house?
(a) Fish patties and salsa.
(b) A sandwhich made of fresh market cold cuts.
(c) Soup and sandwhich.
(d) Pumpkin soup, banana fritters, and salt fish with tomatoes.

2. Who builds Nalda's coffin?
(a) Nalda's mother.
(b) Nalda's father.
(c) Mr. John.
(d) The mortician.

3. How does Annie know her way around the new school in Chapter 3?
(a) She has a student guide showing her around.
(b) She has a map.
(c) Gwen helps her.
(d) She and her mother toured it a week earlier.

4. What is Annie obsessed with in Chapter 1?
(a) Boys.
(b) Death.
(c) Playing marbles.
(d) Shopping.

5. Why does the dunce girl miss school for a short while?
(a) She is playing hooky.
(b) She becomes very ill.
(c) She goes to another school.
(d) Her mother dies suddenly.

6. In Chapter 1, who tucks Annie in on the night she is punished for lying?
(a) No one.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandmother.

7. What does Annie believe will happen if she points at a dead person?
(a) Her fingers will drop off.
(b) Her finger will create sparks.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her hand will burn.

8. Who reared Mr. John?
(a) He was an orphan.
(b) His parents.
(c) An aunt.
(d) His grandmother.

9. Who does most of the talking during lunchtime conversations at Annie's house?
(a) Annie and her mother.
(b) All three.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. John.
(d) Annie and her father.

10. Who falls in love in Chapter 3?
(a) Annie and Mineau.
(b) Annie and Gwen.
(c) Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. John.
(d) Annie and Kenneth.

11. How many times a day does Annie's mom make her wash?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

12. How does Mrs. John teach Annie to bleach the white clothes?
(a) To lay them on white rocks to dry.
(b) To lay them on their roof to be closer to the sun.
(c) To use special bark to make them whiter.
(d) To add two ounces of liquid bleach to the laundry.

13. How does Annie buy her dunce friend treats at recess?
(a) By winning money playing marbles.
(b) She doesn't
(c) With money taken from her mother's purse.
(d) With salary money she has saved.

14. In which chapter does the reader learn Annie's name?
(a) Chapter 3.
(b) Chapter 8.
(c) Chapter 1.
(d) Chapter 2.

15. Why doesn't Annie like the essays her classmates write in Chapter 3?
(a) They are based on true stories.
(b) They are frivolous and superficial.
(c) They are not factual.
(d) They are too long.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural event earns Annie admiration and respect from her classmates in Chapter 3?

2. Which neighbor dies in Chapter 1?

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

4. Which member of the John family sleeps late during the summers?

5. For what reason does Annie and her mother take the "special" baths?

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