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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22, "Grieving".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chapter title "The Case" refer to?
(a) A suitcase for Matthew Parfitt.
(b) A court case concerning the evacuees.
(c) A case of supplies sent to the school.
(d) A box Zach's parents send.

2. What upsets Carrie about George?
(a) He can act in the play and she can't.
(b) He is smarter than she is.
(c) He has opportunities she wants and he does not.
(d) He teases her all of the time.

3. What does the psychiatrist recommend for Willie?
(a) To go to a children's home.
(b) To go back to his mother.
(c) Hospitalization.
(d) To go home with Tom.

4. What happens to Tom, Willie, and Sammie on the way home from their walk in Chapter 2?
(a) It rains heavily on them.
(b) Nothing in particular.
(c) A bomb explodes nearby.
(d) They slide down a ravine.

5. What do Willie and the other children discover about Zach?
(a) He can't sing.
(b) He is Jewish.
(c) His parents aren't actors.
(d) He hates school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Willie want to go into the toy shop?

2. What do the young Fletcher boys come looking for at Tom's?

3. What do the Warden and Glad tell Tom about Mrs. Beech?

4. What is Willie afraid Tom will write on the postcard to his mother?

5. How does Tom get into Mrs. Beech's house?

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