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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Tom frown at Mrs. Fletcher in church?
(a) She almost ruins Willie's birthday surprise.
(b) She sings too loudly.
(c) She attempts to sit next to him.
(d) She taliks to Willie during the service.

3. 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.

4. What does Willie ask Tom to help him with while he is in the library?
(a) Learning his alphabet.
(b) Finding a book.
(c) Getting a book off of the shelf.
(d) Painting.

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

6. What is the boy doing at the postmasters when Willie first meets him in Chapter 3, "Saturday Morning"?
(a) He was reading a newspaper.
(b) He is sitting in a chair.
(c) He is conversing with the postmaster.
(d) He is writing to his mother.

7. 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 practice running.
(d) To work in the garden.

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

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

10. What does Tom take Willie into the fields to see in Chapter 7?
(a) Fruits and vegetables.
(b) Blackberries.
(c) Horses.
(d) Rabbits.

11. What do the townspeople do when Tom joins them at the meeting?
(a) They nudge one another to take notice of Tom.
(b) They snicker.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They jump up to greet him.

12. What does Tom have ready in the morning after Willie sleeps in the bed?
(a) Breakfast in bed.
(b) A new comic book.
(c) A new mattress.
(d) A tub of hot water.

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

14. In Chapter 8, what is different about school this term ?
(a) The evacuees have their own room.
(b) There are no Catholics.
(c) It is much more crowded.
(d) A new teacher has been hired to teach the evacuees.

15. How old is Willie?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Tom?

2. What happens to Tom, Willie, and Sammie on the way home from their walk in Chapter 2?

3. After Willie's first day of school, what does Tom say they will begin that evening?

4. What does Tom want Mrs. Fletcher to do for him in Chapter 2?

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

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