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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of blanket does Daisy use on her bed?

2. What is the song Piper is singing?

3. How often do the trucks leave food for the family after the beginning of the smallpox epidemic?

4. What is under the bed in Daisy's room?

5. What kind of bird does Daisy hear that Edmond identifies for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Baz and Piper, and what does Baz get from it?

2. Briefly describe the letter Daisy receives from her father and Daisy's reaction to it.

3. What is the fantasy Osbert and his friends are imagining and what is Daisy's reaction?

4. What is the role each girl plays in the fishing trip in chapter twenty-eight and why does Daisy say she plays that role?

5. Describe the conversation in which Piper asks Daisy if she loves Edmond.

6. What does Daisy say about Isaac, Edmond, and Piper's schooling?

7. Describe the visit by the two men from the council.

8. What are the rumors about the food being supplied and where is it really coming from?

9. What does Daisy expect of her Aunt Penn and why does she have these expectations?

10. How does the army official driving Daisy and Piper to their new home interacts with the invading army officials who have checkpoints set up, and what is Daisy's reaction to this interaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the reaction of people in the village to the beginning of the war? Why does the interaction of the people of the village come to a stop? What was the source of the rumor that brings the interaction to a stop? How does Daisy discover the truth?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the farm where Daisy's cousins live. How do their lives on the farm differ from Daisy's life in New York? How does her life change with her arrival on the farm?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Daisy. How does she come to be in England and how does she return. What kind of person is she? What are her strengths and weaknesses?

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