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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are George's girls sulking on the way to berry picking?
(a) They don't want Lucy to join them.
(b) They did not want the evacuues to come.
(c) They want bigger baskets for their berries.
(d) They don't want to pick berries.

2. Why has Willie chosen to rise a bit earlier every day at the beginning of the "Birthday" chapter?
(a) To practice reading and writing.
(b) To practice drawing.
(c) To work in the garden.
(d) To practice running.

3. What is ironic about Miss Thorne's thoughts concerning Willie's stay with Tom?
(a) She thinks Willie needs city air when he really needs the country air.
(b) She thinks Willie is in a bad place with Tom and away from his mother.
(c) She thinks Tom will teach Willie things he does not need.
(d) She thinks Tom will take care of him the way his mother can't.

4. How does Tom get Willie out of the hospital?
(a) In an ambulance.
(b) The psychiatrist allows Tom to take him.
(c) He kidnaps him.
(d) The warden helps Tom get him out.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Zach so excited to get Willie home from the church?

2. What is Zach fixing during the whole of Chapter 18, "Recovery"?

3. Why doesn't Tom want to go into the paint store?

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

5. How does the boy at the postmaster's differ from Wilie?

(see the answer key)

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