View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What chore is Alice doing in Footnote (i)?
(a) Baking bread.
(b) Sweeping the floor.
(c) Hanging laundry outside to dry.
(d) Mending socks.

2. Which of these is not something the girls have for breakfast the morning Bunty leaves?
(a) Sugary cornflakes.
(b) Lumpy porridge.
(c) Burnt toast.
(d) Soggy eggy-toast fingers.

3. What book do the girls play they are in?
(a) "Little House on the Prairie."
(b) "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights."
(c) "Black Beauty."
(d) "Little Women."

4. Where is George during the baby's birth?
(a) Next to Bunty in the delivery room.
(b) At a bar.
(c) Minding the pet shop.
(d) Pacing the hospital corridors.

5. Where was the Sunday School outing that Clifford, Babs, and Bunty were scheduled to join?
(a) Scarborough.
(b) Whitby.
(c) Isle of Wight.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Alice's children secretly took the photograph of their mother from the pile on the table?

2. What kind of flowers were on the Barkers' best tea service?

3. Which of these is not one of the dogs Jack worked with?

4. At which family member does the baby smile in Chapter Two?

5. How many children did Frank and Nell have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Gillian after the pantomime?

2. Why has Ruby moved into Gillian's room?

3. Describe the movie Jack and Nell went to when he was home on leave.

4. What "improvements" does Rachel make to the Barker family and home after she arrives to help out?

5. What kind of a man is Walter the butcher?

6. How does Auntie Doreen win Patricia over?

7. How is Bunty treated at Sunday School after missing the outing?

8. What kind of church does Auntie Babs attend?

9. What causes Nell to faint in Footnote (ii)?

10. Where does Bunty find the photographic portrait of her grandmother?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 908 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample