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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 case of supplies sent to the school.
(b) A suitcase for Matthew Parfitt.
(c) A box Zach's parents send.
(d) A court case concerning the evacuees.

2. What is the Little's building?
(a) A bird house.
(b) A school for the children.
(c) A trench for feeding the horses.
(d) An air-raid shelter.

3. How does Nancy Little's entrance into church surprise Willie?
(a) She enters without her husband.
(b) She is with the boy from the post office.
(c) She is wearing red.
(d) She is wearing pants.

4. Why are three children missing from Mrs. Hartridge's class on Monday in Chapter 14, "New Beginnings"?
(a) Snow.
(b) The war.
(c) They were ill.
(d) They went back to London.

5. Why is Willie afraid to invite his friends to his room?
(a) He thinks it will anger Tom.
(b) He still wets the bed.
(c) The room is not fun.
(d) The room is very small.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willie believe happens at the end of church service?

2. How has Willie's room changed?

3. What does Tom have ready in the morning after Willie sleeps in the bed?

4. How does Tom defend Willie against the question posed by the Fletcher boy about Willie's shirt?

5. Why does Alec Barnes look embarrassed at carol practice?

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