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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 does David find to eat in the truck?
(a) Hamburger.
(b) Salomi.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Cheese.

2. Who is present when the family arrives to help?
(a) The fire department.
(b) The police.
(c) The boy who beat him earlier.
(d) Soldiers.

3. Why is David so enthralled by dinner?
(a) He has never used a knife before.
(b) He has never used a fork before.
(c) He has never had porridge before.
(d) He has never eaten a meal outside the camp.

4. Why does David decide to attempt to escape?
(a) He believes he will be captured again.
(b) He believes he can make it.
(c) He believes he will be killed.
(d) He believes he will be saved.

5. What does David admit to the woman that he does not know how to do?
(a) Drive.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Wink.
(d) Smile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David decide at the end of Chapter One?

2. What does David do that helps him not burn when he saves the girl?

3. Why does David ration his prayers to God?

4. What does David pick up, slightly damaged, after a woman drops it in the street?

5. What does David do when he realizes he has to leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how David comes to choose a God, and why.

2. Explain how David comes to the home of Giovanni.

3. Explain David's reaction to the baby.

4. Explain why David is beat up, and why he refuses to fight back.

5. Why was it so important for David to clean himself so thoroughly?

6. Explain why David's eating of the orange forced him to consider going into town.

7. Why does David force himself not to think?

8. Describe David's first prayer.

9. Explain what the man on the ship and the woman in the shop mean when they discuss David's eyes.

10. Explain why David doesn't believe he would be good at playing.

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