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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color hair does Mr. Kinsella have?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

2. Where does Mrs. Kinsella have the narrator say her prayers in Chapter 2?
(a) In bed.
(b) At the kitchen table.
(c) In the living room.
(d) Kneeling on the floor.

3. In Chapter 2, what does the narrator say when Mrs. Kinsella asks her if her mother is all right?
(a) She hurt her foot.
(b) She used to get sick in the mornings.
(c) She gets tired.
(d) She has headaches.

4. When does the narrator's mother fix pancakes for her?
(a) When her father has not been gambling.
(b) When her father just got paid.
(c) When her mother is in a good humor.
(d) When her mother is not tired.

5. What are on the wallpaper in the room where the narrator sleeps at the Kinsella's house?
(a) Sports equipment.
(b) Trains.
(c) Dinosaurs.
(d) Cars and trucks.

6. What covers the bed in the Kinsellas' bedroom?
(a) Log cabin quilt.
(b) Candlewick spread.
(c) Broken star quilt.
(d) Chenille spread.

7. What does the narrator use in Chapter 2 to take a drink from the well?
(a) Iron ladle.
(b) Enamel mug.
(c) Metal ladle.
(d) Metal mug.

8. In Chapter 2, what light is there from the sun when the narrator goes to bed?
(a) Full sun.
(b) A dim light.
(c) None.
(d) A hint of light.

9. When does Mrs. Kinsella say she last saw the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) When she was born.
(b) When she was 4.
(c) In the pram.
(d) When she was 2.

10. What sounds does the narrator listen to at the well?
(a) Sound of her breath over the mouth of the well.
(b) The echoes from her voice in the well.
(c) The wind in the grass.
(d) The breeze over the mouth of the well.

11. What chores does the narrator think she might have to do at the Kinsella's place?
(a) Wash dishes and mop floors.
(b) Clean out sheds, pick stones, and pull ragweed.
(c) Do laundry, wash dishes, and mop floors.
(d) Weed, wash dishes, and do laundry.

12. In Chapter 2, what color are the butterflies the narrator sees as she walks through the fields with Mrs. Kinsella?
(a) Orange.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

13. What color cat does Mrs. Kinsella have in her kitchen in Chapter 1?
(a) Orange and white.
(b) Calico.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Tortoiseshell.

14. What does Mrs. Kinsella fill an enamel jug with in Chapter 1?
(a) Tea.
(b) Milk.
(c) Water.
(d) Lemonade.

15. What type are the fences around the Kinsella's fields?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Wood.
(c) Rail fencing.
(d) Electric.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator keep from falling in the well in Chapter 2?

2. What type of steps lead upstairs from the kitchen at the Kinsellas?

3. In Chapter 1, where was the priest from who prayed for rain that morning?

4. When did the narrator's mother pay for last year's haying in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 1, what day of the week does the narrator's father take her for a drive?

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