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

2. What does Annie wonder while walking home from the dead girl's funeral in Chapter 1?
(a) If the dead girl could hear the people at the funeral.
(b) If the girl was really, truly dead.
(c) If the dead girl will come for her.
(d) If the dead girl knows Annie was there.

3. What calms Annie's fear of her mother dying?
(a) The fear just goes away on its own.
(b) Her friendship with Gwen.
(c) She hates her mother.
(d) Her father's love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Annie obsessed with in Chapter 1?

2. What does the teacher do with Annie's essay in Chapter 3?

3. What does Annie choose as the focus of her assignment?

4. What does Annie reveal in the conclusion of the essay she writes on the first day of school?

5. At what age does Annie say her life starts to change?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Chapter 3 ends, when does it seem Annie is happiest?

2. What does Annie write that gets her into trouble in Chapter 5 and where does she write it?

3. In Chapter 1, Annie is supposed to pick up fish on her way home but did not. How does Mrs. John get the fish?

4. What incident makes the Johns realize they cannot leave Annie alone at all?

5. Why does Mrs. John prepare her friend's daughter for burial in Chapter 1?

6. Annie dreams that she saves the Red Girl from a ship wreck and they live on an island together forever. What do they do for fun on the island?

7. How does Annie see Ruth in Chapter 5 and why?

8. What hypocrisy does Annie struggle to understand regarding her mother?

9. In Chapter 7, what new habits does Annie demonstrate after she recovers and how do her classmates feel about them?

10. What inspires Annie to pen the words that get her in trouble in Chapter 5?

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