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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Bible story does Tom tell Willie?
(a) Job.
(b) Sodom and Gomarah.
(c) Noah's Ark.
(d) Lot.

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

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

4. What does Tom tell Mrs. Fletcher he has seen Willie do for the first time?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Cry.
(c) Read.
(d) Not wet his bed.

5. Who does WIllie meet while he is in the yard in Chapter 1?
(a) The school teacher.
(b) The old lady neighbor.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Tom go to the draper?

2. What does Zach do that makes the ceiling fall?

3. What does Tom add to the shelter?

4. How does Tom defend Willie against the question posed by the Fletcher boy about Willie's shirt?

5. Why are many of the evacuees sent back home in the beginning of "The Case" chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What further happens in Chapter 3 that make the reader sympathize even more with Willie?

2. What is the meaning of the title of Chapter 4?

3. Throughout Chapter 5, how does Tom show his care for Willie?

4. How does Willie become humiliated at school on the first day? What do the children do to make him feel better?

5. How is Willie's reaction to the squirrel and the dog telling of his character?

6. What "firsts" does Willie experience in the "Birthday" chapter and how does he respond to them?

7. What is the overall feeling of the townspeople about the war? What actions do they perform that reveal their feelings?

8. How has the war begun to affect the villagers?

9. Why are George's sisters upset with George on the day of the picnic, and what does this say about the way that they think?

10. How does Tom feel about the war? What does he say and do that indicate those feelings?

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