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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Germans looking for in Chapter 3?
(a) Coats.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Work boots.
(d) Hats.

2. What do Mr. and Mrs. Bergen argue about in Chapter 7?
(a) The German prisoners.
(b) Patty's hair.
(c) The war.
(d) The store's inventory.

3. Why are the horizontal stair boards removed from the stairs leading to the hideout?
(a) The room is in the process of being remodeled.
(b) To keep other kids away.
(c) To keep out vagrants.
(d) They are rotten.

4. How does Patty react to Mr. and Mrs. Bergen's argument in Chapter 7?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She hides in her room.
(c) She screams.
(d) She runs to her hideout.

5. What does Patty tell Sister Parker about Anton?
(a) He is a long lost cousin.
(b) He hates Hitler and hopes America wins the war.
(c) She is afraid of him.
(d) He isn't really German.

6. Why does Patty think that her mother wants her to leave the store in Chapter 6?
(a) She thinks that her mother considers her stupid.
(b) She thinks her mother is angry with her.
(c) She thinks her mother resents having an ugly daughter.
(d) She thinks her mother knows she's stealing from the store.

7. In Chapter 3, where is Patty when the German prisoners arrive?
(a) At her grandmother's house.
(b) In school.
(c) At home.
(d) In the Bergen's store.

8. How does one prisoner respond when taunted?
(a) He smiles and waves.
(b) He kicks up dust.
(c) He spits.
(d) He swears.

9. What impresses Patty about Anton Reiker?
(a) His blue eyes.
(b) His accent.
(c) His physique.
(d) His flawless English.

10. Why doesn't Patty want her father to catch her praying?
(a) He is an atheist.
(b) He hates formal religion.
(c) Her family is Muslim.
(d) She will get in trouble for saying Christian prayers.

11. What does Patty dream about at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Running away to live with her grandmother.
(b) Searching for her real mother on a horse named Evol.
(c) Riding behind Anton on a black horse.
(d) Eating dinner with Anton in a fine restaurant.

12. What excuse does Patty give for laughing with Anton?
(a) She was laughing at his poor knowledge of English.
(b) Anton told her a funny story.
(c) Anton was making funny faces at the guard.
(d) She was laughing because she was nervous.

13. What would Grandma Fried like for Patty to do?
(a) Go to boarding school.
(b) Visit more often.
(c) Help her clean house once a week.
(d) Go back home.

14. What lie does Mrs. Bergen tell Grandma Fried in Chapter 2?
(a) Patty is busy with a school play.
(b) Patty must work in the store after school.
(c) Patty is too busy with her friends.
(d) Patty is too busy with school.

15. Where is the restaurant located where Patty and her grandmother have lunch?
(a) Downtown.
(b) At the top of a grand hotel.
(c) In the lobby of a hotel.
(d) Overlooking a river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie does Patty tell her father?

2. Who does Patty see near her hideout in Chapter 7?

3. How could Patty get back to Memphis on her own?

4. What does Patty tell Charlene Madlee she wants to be when she grows up?

5. In Chapter 6, where does Patty spend her Saturday?

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