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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of a character is Mrs. Fletcher?
(a) Kind and sweet.
(b) A gossip.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Mean and nasty.

2. What surprise has Tom gotten for Willie while they are in town?
(a) Paintbrushes.
(b) Gas mask.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) Boots.

3. What do Willie and the other children discover about Zach?
(a) He is Jewish.
(b) He hates school.
(c) He can't sing.
(d) His parents aren't actors.

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

5. What does Tom find in Willie's belongings that angers him?
(a) Night clothes.
(b) A dirty toothbrush.
(c) A belt.
(d) A Bible.

6. Why does Willie end up in Mrs. Black's class?
(a) Because he can't read.
(b) Because he is an evacuee.
(c) Because of his age.
(d) Because he is Catholic.

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

8. Why doesn't Tom want to go into the paint store?
(a) He hasn't been in there since Rachel died.
(b) He has no time.
(c) He doesn't need paint.
(d) Willie is afraid to go in.

9. 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.

10. Why doesn't Willie talk to the girls as they pick blackberries?
(a) His mother said people would like him if he were invisible.
(b) He doesn't like them.
(c) He knows they don't want him to talk.
(d) He is afraid of them.

11. What does Willie tell the children at the picnic that he likes to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Pick berries.
(c) Fish.
(d) Draw.

12. Why hasn't Willie painted at school?
(a) The other kids won't let him.
(b) He is too poor.
(c) Because he can't read and write.
(d) His mother won't let him.

13. What present does Emilia Thorne give Willie that he has never had known before?
(a) A book.
(b) Clothes.
(c) A balaclava.
(d) Boots.

14. What is hanging around Willie's neck?
(a) Rosary Beads.
(b) A picture of his mother.
(c) A cardboard label.
(d) A cross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what is different about school this term ?

2. For what does Tom go to the draper?

3. What is different about Zach that Tom and George both note?

4. What Bible story doesTom tell Willie after his bath in Chapter 6?

5. What does George invite Willie to do the day after they build the shelter?

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