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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 teases her all of the time.
(c) He is smarter than she is.
(d) He can act in the play and she can't.

2. What is the first of Willie's drawings that everyone sees on his birthday?
(a) A person praying in church.
(b) An eagle flying in the rain.
(c) The pulpit.
(d) Jesus on the cross.

3. What does Willie cook with Tom at the end of his picnic day?
(a) Blackberry jam.
(b) Stew.
(c) apple and black currant pie
(d) Potatoes.

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

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

6. How does Willie feel about his first day of school?
(a) It is a bad day.
(b) He is excited to be in Mrs. Black's class.
(c) He is angry at Mrs. Hartridge.
(d) He is ready to learn.

7. What happens to Willie while he sleeps in the opening of Chapter 3, "Saturday Morning"?
(a) He has a wonderful dream.
(b) He cries.
(c) He wets the bed.
(d) He sleeps soundly for the first time in his life.

8. What does Zach tell Willie that his parents do for a living?
(a) They are serving in the war.
(b) They work in the theater.
(c) They work for the government.
(d) They are teachers.

9. What problem does Willie have when he, Tom, and Sammy go out to the fields in Chapter 2?
(a) Willie can't keep up.
(b) Willie does not want to go.
(c) Willie is afraid to go.
(d) Willie has no boots, so he can't go.

10. Whose shadow does Willie see at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) The boy from the post office.
(b) His mother's.
(c) A dog's.
(d) The vicar's.

11. Who greets Willie outside of church after the service ends?
(a) The boy from the post office.
(b) Mrs. Hartridge, the teacher.
(c) The twins.
(d) Lucy, the daughter of Roe, the milk lady.

12. What do all of the children come to tell Willie after the first day of school?
(a) That reading and writing are fun.
(b) That they are upset that Willie is not in their class.
(c) That they cannot be friends with Willie any longer.
(d) That the teachers were mean to put him in Mrs. Black's class.

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

14. Why doesn't Willie pick the color red for his suspenders?
(a) Willie doesn't like red.
(b) His mother told him red was sinful.
(c) He isn't given the choice of red.
(d) Tom says he doesn't like red.

15. What news does Zach bring to the kids about school?
(a) There will be a Christmas play.
(b) There will be a big carol chorus for Christmas.
(c) The school will close because of the war.
(d) Mrs. Hartrigde is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Prime Minister inform the country over the wireless?

2. What does the word mackintosh refer to in chapter 1?

3. Why does May Thorne begin delivering the mail?

4. In Chapter 1, what is on the sleeve of the woman's coat?

5. What does Tom find in Willie's belongings that angers him?

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