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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tom say about the comic book he wants Willie to choose?
(a) Tom rushes Willie into his choice of one.
(b) Tom will read it to him.
(c) Willie can look at the pictures.
(d) Willie can learn to read using it.

3. What happens to Willie's desserts at the picnic?
(a) The other children help him finish them.
(b) He eats them all.
(c) Ants raid them.
(d) He hides what he can't eat.

4. What does Dobbs do to Willie when he tries to pat her after George does?
(a) Dobbs licks Willie's hand.
(b) Dobbs nips at Willie's hand.
(c) Dobbs sends Willie stumbling backwards.
(d) Dobbs neighs.

5. What is Willie's first thought of Mrs. Hartridge?
(a) She is funny.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is fat.
(d) She is mean looking.

6. What does WIllie discover is missing from Tom's house?
(a) A Bible.
(b) The sounds of traffic.
(c) Curtains.
(d) A wood stove.

7. On their walk to the field in the beginning of Chapter 7, what does Tom have Willie do?
(a) Catch tadpoles.
(b) Race against Sam.
(c) Swim in the pond.
(d) Take off his boots to feel the grass.

8. Why doesn't Willie want to go into the toy shop?
(a) Willie can't buy one.
(b) He does not want Tom to buy him one.
(c) Willie is afraid he will break one.
(d) He does not want to be alone.

9. Why is Doctor Little surprised when he looks at Willie?
(a) He is very small for his age.
(b) His socks have fallen down.
(c) He has lice.
(d) He has so many bruises.

10. How does Mr. Miller first greet Willie?
(a) Sadly, he feels sorry for poor, skinny Willie.
(b) Happily, he is glad to have the Londoners in town.
(c) Angrily, he is afraid he will steal from him.
(d) Frightened, he is afraid Willie will be bad.

11. How does Tom defend Willie against the question posed by the Fletcher boy about Willie's shirt?
(a) He says Willie has a fever he needs to sweat out.
(b) He says it is no one's business.
(c) He says Willie is too thin to take off his shirt.
(d) He says Willie has bruises he needs to cover.

12. What is the mother's concern for her child's placement in Chapter 1?
(a) That he be placed with other children.
(b) That he be placed near a school.
(c) That he be placed with an elderly man.
(d) That he be placed near a church.

13. How does the boy at the postmaster's differ from Wilie?
(a) He is much older.
(b) He is much fatter.
(c) He is much smarter.
(d) He is much tanner.

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

15. How does Willie feel about his bruises?
(a) He doesn't care if people see them.
(b) He has not deserved them.
(c) He is unfazed by them.
(d) They are the marks of his sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom add to the shelter?

2. What does Tom's front door look out onto?

3. Why is the librarian astonished that Tom wants a card for Willie?

4. What problem does Willie have when he, Tom, and Sammy go out to the fields in Chapter 2?

5. Why does Willie go to the church to draw?

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