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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. In Chapter 1, why is the narrator feeling bad when her father leaves?
(a) He does not say goodbye.
(b) She wishes her mother had come.
(c) She wishes her sister had come.
(d) She feels homesick.

2. On the wallpaper in the room where the narrator is sleeping at the Kinsella's house, what people are on the wallpaper?
(a) Children playing.
(b) Boys and girls running.
(c) Families.
(d) Small boy.

3. What would Mrs. Kinsella like to send the narrator's mother in Chapter 2?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Laborers.

4. What type of gate leads to the well on the Kinsella's property?
(a) Maple wood.
(b) Iron.
(c) Wire.
(d) Ash wood.

5. What is Mrs. Kinsella baking in Chapter 1?
(a) Strawberry tart.
(b) Raisin cookies.
(c) Rhubarb tart.
(d) Oatmeal cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Kinsella get the dirt under the narrator's toenails?

2. In Chapter 1, what type of flowers are in a glass in Mrs. Kinsella's kitchen?

3. What color hair does Mr. Kinsella have?

4. What type of trees are in the Kinsella's yard?

5. What type of steps lead to the Kinsella's well?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel when her father leaves her at the Kinsellas?

2. How is the narrator's mother always busy?

3. How does a dog greet the narrator and her father when they arrive at the Kinsellas?

4. How does the narrator get upstairs and what does she see?

5. In Chapter 1, where do the narrator and her father drive?

6. In Chapter 2, how does the narrator get water from the well?

7. In Chapter 2, what clothes does Mrs. Kinsella get for the narrator after her bath?

8. What familiar places do the narrator and her father pass on their drive in Chapter 1?

9. Why does the narrator tell Mrs. Kinsella that her family does not have their hay harvested?

10. What does the narrator see as she and Mrs. Kinsella walk through the fields in Chapter 2?

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