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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 do the children buy to eat in Part 2, Chapter 1, before their bus leaves?
(a) Hot dogs and orange drink.
(b) Hot dogs and Coke.
(c) Hamburgers and fries.
(d) Chicken nuggets and grape drink.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 10, what do Will and Claire eat for lunch at Abigail's?
(a) Chicken noodle soup.
(b) Peanut butter sandwiches.
(c) Chowder.
(d) Crab and tomatoes.

3. What time do Dicey and the children arrive in Annapolis?
(a) 8 p.m.
(b) 8:30 p.m.
(c) 7:30 p.m.
(d) 7 p.m.

4. How many fish does Dicey catch at the beginning to Part 2, Chapter 4?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. What river do the children cross when they escape from Mr. Rudyard?
(a) Blackwater.
(b) Chester.
(c) Somerset.
(d) Choptank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Abigail find for the chldren to play in the evenings in Part 2, Chapter 11?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 4, what time do the children get going?

3. What does Abigail say is the name of the woman in the grocery store who told Dicey how to find Abigail's place?

4. What grade is Dicey in?

5. In Part 2, Chapter 9, what time does Dicey wake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Dicey come up with to stay at their grandmother's?

2. Why does Will want to take the children to their grandmother's and why does Dicey want to go alone?

3. How do the children settle in for the night at the end of Part 2, Chapter 3?

4. How does Mrs. Jenkins, the Crisfield elementary school counselor, want to figure out Maybeth's place in the school, and what decision does she come to?

5. What does Mrs. Rudyard send for the children to eat when they pick tomatoes?

6. How do the children escape from Mr. Rudyard in Part 2, Chapter 5?

7. Why does Abigail say that she cannot keep the children?

8. What does Dicey see when she arrives at her grandmother's place?

9. In Part 2, Chapter 1, where do the children sleep?

10. Who comes to visit in Part 2, Chapter 10, and what do they bring?

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