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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 tell God he no longer has to do?
(a) Protect David from them.
(b) Listen to him.
(c) Care for him.
(d) Love him.

2. What does the mother say the father should not worry about when searching for somewhere to send David?
(a) The cost.
(b) The location.
(c) The government.
(d) The country.

3. What does David know will happen to him when he runs?
(a) He will be tired.
(b) He will be captured.
(c) He will be released.
(d) He will be shot.

4. Why does the farmer decide the boy must go?
(a) He is of no use to the farmer.
(b) He has "a hold" on the dog.
(c) He is no longer working.
(d) He is too expensive to feed.

5. Why does David ask for books made prior to 1917?
(a) He wants books prior to the current year.
(b) He wants to be sure what is in them is valid.
(c) He wants books made before he went to the camp.
(d) He wants books from before he was born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David think of Carlo?

2. Why does the farmer lock the stable door one night?

3. What does the woman David meets wish to do?

4. What does Edith call David when she sees him?

5. What does David realize he has found that has changed him forever?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why David doesn't like dogs, and how his friendship with King develops.

2. Explain the newspaper letter David reads, and why it is important to him.

3. What does David say in his letter to Carlo?

4. Why does Giovanni's wife want David to leave?

5. Explain why David is disheartened in this chapter.

6. Describe the individuals at the farm.

7. Explain why David asks God to spare King, and kill him instead.

8. Describe how David comes to meet Sophie Hartmann, and describe Sophie.

9. Why does David hate being touched?

10. Explain what happens to King.

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