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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Annie feel like an outsider on her first day of school in Chapter 3?
(a) Only the teachers talk to her.
(b) The other girls enter the building arm-in-arm.
(c) She wears the wrong outfit by mistake.
(d) The other girls make fun of her friend.

2. Why is Annie punished in Chapter 4?
(a) For cheating on a test.
(b) For lying about her new friend.
(c) For throwing a tantrum.
(d) For playing marbles at school.

3. Why is Annie's Chapter 4 friend sent away?
(a) To finish her education.
(b) Her mother dies.
(c) Because she is unruly.
(d) She has commited a crime.

4. Where does the John family stay during summer holiday?
(a) House on Dickenson Bay Street.
(b) On a house boat.
(c) House on Fort Road.
(d) House on Fort Bay Street.

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

6. What is Gwen's last name?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Jose.
(c) Josef.
(d) Jones.

7. What is Annie's first assignment at school in Chapter 3?
(a) To write an autobiographical essay.
(b) To write a biography book report.
(c) To write an essay about her summer activites.
(d) To give an impromptu presentation about herself.

8. In Chapter 1, what has almost everyone else at school seen that Annie has not?
(a) A television set.
(b) An Obeah woman.
(c) A famous person.
(d) A dead person.

9. What does Annie choose as the focus of her assignment?
(a) The trips she and her mother took to Rat Island.
(b) Living in their summer home.
(c) The trips she and her mother took to the market.
(d) The trip she made to Dominica.

10. How is Annie trying to get fruit out of the tree in Chapter 4?
(a) By throwing rocks at it to knock it down.
(b) By shaking the tree to make it drop.
(c) By climbing the tree to pick it.
(d) By using Obeah spells to make it fall.

11. In Annie's dream, what do she and her friend do for fun after the shipwreck?
(a) Cause other ships to crash by sending confusing signals.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Eat forbidden fruit on the island.
(d) Play hopscotch.

12. For what reason does Annie and her mother take the "special" baths?
(a) To ward off bad spirits detected by the Obeah woman.
(b) For a special, relaxing spa treatment.
(c) As part of aroma-therapy.
(d) To make their skin soft.

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

14. What does Annie reveal in the conclusion of the essay she writes on the first day of school?
(a) She longs to see many dead people.
(b) She wants to run away from home.
(c) She dreams her mother never comes back.
(d) She is afraid of making new friends.

15. What special items are in Mrs. John's travel trunk now?
(a) Heirloom silverware.
(b) Memories from her own childhood.
(c) Memories from Annie's life.
(d) Her wedding dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair does the girl have that Annie meets in Chapter 4?

2. How do the women who are mean to Annie and her mother act when they see Mr. John?

3. Why doesn't Annie like the essays her classmates write in Chapter 3?

4. In Annie's dream, who saves her Chapter 4 friend in a shipwreck?

5. Which row does Annie sit on in her new classroom in Chapter 3?

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