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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 dirty and undesirable job does Lee ask Sol and Cowney to do in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Painting.
(b) Waxing.
(c) Plumbing.
(d) Driving fence posts in.

2. Why does a siren start in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) There has been a theft.
(b) A dog has bitten someone.
(c) A soldier has been shot.
(d) A diplomat's daughter is missing.

3. Who helps Cowney with the dirty work he has to do in Chapter Fifteen, even though this person does not have to?
(a) Essie.
(b) Andrea.
(c) Peter Franks.
(d) Bud.

4. What does Cowney do that is a violation of Essie's privacy in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Reads her diary.
(b) Calls her mother to tell her she has been going out with men.
(c) Reads a note that a love interest wrote to her.
(d) Goes through her purse.

5. What song that Lishie sings in Chapter Thirteen does Cowney love?
(a) Amazing Grace.
(b) God's Good Will.
(c) I Won't Back Down.
(d) Spirit in the Sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter tell Cowney a guard found that is evidence in the investigation?

2. Who does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney he should ask about the circumstances of his father's death?

3. What does Cowney ask the colonel if he can do in Chapter Twenty that the colonel reluctantly agrees to?

4. Who is one of the first visitors to Lishie's house after she dies?

5. What does the new visitor who was friends with Cowney's father give him at Lishie's house in Chapter Seventeen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter offer Cowney in Part III that begins to solidify their friendship?

2. How does Cowney feel after seeing Essie and Andrea kissing?

3. How do the military men treat Cowney as they are questioning him in Part IV?

4. How does Lishie get Cowney to go to church with her in the start of Part III?

5. Why does a siren start in Part IV that startles everyone?

6. Where does Essie want Cowney to take her, and why does she seem to hesitate later?

7. What does Cowney dream about during his sleep during church in Part III?

8. What does Tsa Tsi tell Cowney in Part III about Bud?

9. What does Cowney bring up in front of Sol that makes Sol stop bullying him so much?

10. What does Jon Craig tell Cowney about his father's death?

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