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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 can Annie see in the distance from her family's vacation home?
(a) The produce market.
(b) A guava tree.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A furniture store.

2. Where is Annie's family living when the daughter of her mother's friend dies?
(a) On Dickenson Bay Street.
(b) On Fort Road.
(c) In Dominica.
(d) On Dickson Street.

3. What does Annie's mother teach her at the market?
(a) How to negotiate a better price.
(b) How to sell crafts they make together.
(c) Which grains to buy for their special bath.
(d) How to buy the best fish, fruit, and butter.

4. What upsets Annie when she and her mother visit the fabric store in Chapter 2?
(a) Her mom picks out ugly fabric.
(b) Annie doesn't want to go to the fabric store.
(c) They don't buy matching fabric for dresses.
(d) They don't have enough matching fabric.

5. Who are the two girls Annie befriends at her new school in Chapter 2?
(a) Albertine and Gweneth.
(b) Alberta and Gwendolyn
(c) Ruth and Sonia.
(d) Amy and Sonia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Annie obsessed with in Chapter 1?

2. Why is Annie sent home from school one day in Chapter 3?

3. Who does most of the talking during lunchtime conversations at Annie's house?

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

5. In Chapter 1, who tucks Annie in on the night she is punished for lying?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gwen initiate the friendship that develops between her and Annie?

2. What is Annie's belief regarding dead people in Chapter 1?

3. What unusual incident occurs when Annie's uncle dies?

4. Describe Annie's feelings at the beginning of Chapter 6.

5. When does Annie's friendship with the Red Girl begin to take on new dimension?

6. What are the parting words Annie's mother shares with her daughter?

7. How does Annie react when her mother gives her an egg cordial with two spoons of rum in it?

8. Why does Annie write the trouble-causing comment in Chapter 5?

9. What does Annie tell her father she wants in Chapter 6?

10. How does Annie view her parents in Chapter 8? How does Annie now see herself?

(see the answer keys)

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