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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On their walk in Chapter 2, what does Willie do for Tom?
(a) He whistles to him.
(b) He walks the dog.
(c) He picks berries.
(d) He carries his bag.

3. What does Emilia Thorne often come to the house to do while Tom is at fire duty?
(a) Teach Willie rhymes and poems.
(b) Clean.
(c) Keep Willie company.
(d) Deliver books.

4. What change comes for Willie at the end of the "Friday" chapter when his friends come to visit?
(a) He no longer wets the bed.
(b) He no longer has any bruises.
(c) He no longer feels frightened.
(d) They learn that he has been beaten.

5. From what book does Tom read to Willie after his bath in Chapter 6?
(a) King Arthur.
(b) White Fang.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Just So Stories.

6. What confusing saying did Zach leave Willie with on the night they first met?
(a) See ya later, alligator.
(b) In a while, crocodile.
(c) Roger, wilco, and out.
(d) Just looking for spies.

7. How does Tom make everyone laugh over Mr. Ruddles's entrance?
(a) Tom makes a joke about the light.
(b) Tom is frustrated over so many people coming in to his home at once.
(c) Tom asks Ruddles if he had his nose under the door snooping.
(d) Sammie tries to lick Mr. Ruddles face, and Tom thinks its funny.

8. How old is Tom?
(a) In his forties.
(b) In his thirties.
(c) In his fifties.
(d) In his sixties.

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

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

11. For what does Tom go to the draper?
(a) Clothes for Willie.
(b) Draperies.
(c) Clothes for himself.
(d) Black material for the windows at night.

12. What is Willie afraid Tom will write on the postcard to his mother?
(a) That he can't read and write.
(b) That he has been a bad boy.
(c) That she should come get him at once.
(d) That she should come for his birthday.

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

14. What is different about Zach that Tom and George both note?
(a) His lack of intelligence.
(b) His clothing.
(c) His laugh.
(d) His vocabulary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willie ask Tom to help him with while he is in the library?

2. Why is Zach so excited to get Willie home from the church?

3. How does the boy at the postmaster's differ from Wilie?

4. What do Willie and the other children discover about Zach?

5. What do all of the children come to tell Willie after the first day of school?

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