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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Major McEvoy say was one of the first things to be taken over by the enemy?
(a) Food.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Petrol.
(d) Trains and planes.

2. Why is Mrs. McEvoy worried about her older son?
(a) He was in the army and has gone missing.
(b) He was away at school and she hasn't heard from him.
(c) He has been taken hostage.
(d) He is running around with a wild crowd.

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

4. What does Mrs. McEvoy say about Piper?
(a) That she's too heavy.
(b) That she's too skinny.
(c) That she needs a haircut.
(d) That she's adorable.

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

6. What are the military officials eating for lunch on the day they arrive to take over the house?
(a) Chicken and dumplings.
(b) Rice and beans.
(c) Potatoes and onlins.
(d) Sandwiches.

7. What month is it when Daisy and Piper arrive at Gateshead Farm?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) October.
(d) November.

8. What does Daisy first think is wrong with Piper when she wakes up screaming?
(a) She has mushroom poisoning.
(b) She is dreaming about her mother.
(c) She heard soldiers coming.
(d) She has had a premonition of her own death.

9. What does Daisy believe she's hearing the night Jet joins them in the lambing barn?
(a) A cat with her young kittens.
(b) Edmond or a rat.
(c) Foxes or wolves.
(d) A pack of wild dogs.

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

11. When does Daisy "talk" to Edmond in Chapter 18?
(a) Only in her dreams.
(b) Never.
(c) Constantly.
(d) When he calls each Saturday.

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

13. What does Daisy say she prays for in Chapter 27?
(a) That Piper will stop crying.
(b) That soldiers won't find them.
(c) That Edmond and Isaac will come home.
(d) That the food they'd left is safe and not rotten.

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

15. Which of the following is NOT among the items in the package Baz gave Daisy?
(a) A bowl.
(b) A gun.
(c) Salami.
(d) Peanut butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the last words Baz says to Piper before leaving them?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the questions posed by the British Army official who comes to see Daisy and the cousins?

3. What does Piper say she'd always thought her sister would be named?

4. What does Baz bring for Piper and Daisy to eat their first morning in the barn that is being used as a military barracks?

5. What is Daisy's first job on the farm in Chapter 20?

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