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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the food Daisy and Piper find growing along a stone wall near the path they are following that first morning?
(a) Asparagus.
(b) Wild onions.
(c) Almonds.
(d) Blackberries.

2. Who goes inside to tell Mrs. McEvoy that her husband has been killed?
(a) The driver of the truck.
(b) Piper.
(c) Judy.
(d) Daisy.

3. Who is the one person Daisy believes she recognizes among the dead at Gateshead Farm?
(a) Dr. Jameson.
(b) Mrs. McEvoy.
(c) Aunt Penn.
(d) Isaac.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the questions posed by the British Army official who comes to see Daisy and the cousins?
(a) How many outbuildings are there?
(b) How many rooms there are in the house.
(c) Does the roof leak?
(d) How much money is in the house.

5. What does Daisy learn from Edmond about the time she "hears" the cry of a newborn baby?
(a) That the baby died.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That the baby survived.
(d) That the baby was ill.

6. What does Daisy feel when she thinks back on Joe's death later that night?
(a) Frustration that the war is happening.
(b) Anger that he got Major McEvoy killed.
(c) Fear that she'll die as well.
(d) Sadness that she wasn't nicer to him.

7. Why is Jet such a valuable commodity?
(a) He chases animals out of the garden.
(b) He is trained to carry messages.
(c) He alerts the family to intruders.
(d) There is no fuel for the vehicles used to herd animals.

8. What does Daisy say about her skills with maps?
(a) That she'll have to make her own.
(b) That she's very good at them.
(c) That she isn't good at them.
(d) That she's never seen one before.

9. What is the food Daisy spends most of her time finding and storing?
(a) Apples.
(b) Asparagus.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Turnips.

10. What does Daisy see Baz doing one night at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) Kissing Mrs. McEvoy.
(b) Cleaning his gun.
(c) Stealing food.
(d) Keeping watch over her and Piper.

11. What does Daisy tell Baz though she swears him to secrecy?
(a) That she's going to try to return to Edmond, Isaac, and Osbert.
(b) That she's going to find a way to get back to America.
(c) That she's afraid Piper is going into shock.
(d) That she wants to find something to do.

12. What is the scent Daisy smells when Edmond is near her in Chapter 18?
(a) Tobacco and earth.
(b) Old Spice and peppermind.
(c) Cinnamon and yeast.
(d) Fresh hay and apples.

13. Who is at the house when Daisy and Piper finally return to Piper's house?
(a) Osbert.
(b) Isaac.
(c) No one.
(d) Soldiers.

14. Who is Albert?
(a) The fourteen-year-old McEvoy boy who is away at school.
(b) The eighteen-year-old soldier who drives the girls to the McEvoy's.
(c) The four-year-old son of Mrs. McEvoy.
(d) The eight-year-old son of the McEvoy's neighbor.

15. Why does Daisy believe Dr. Jameson might have had something to do with the arrival of the British military?
(a) She doesn't think he sent them.
(b) Because he'd said he would send the authorities.
(c) Because he'd been their only visitor just a few days earlier.
(d) Because the officials said he'd sent them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the game Piper and Daisy play to help pass the time while they walk?

2. How does Daisy know they have reached the late to Gateshead Farm?

3. What does Daisy say she prays for in Chapter 27?

4. Why does Piper say they should catch and kill a rabbit?

5. What is Daisy's reaction when Joe is shot?

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