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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 year is it when Louise is writing in hopes of earning money?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

2. Whom does Louise ask for advice about Trudy's cats?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Her grandmother.

3. How much older than Caroline is Louise?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Two minutes.

4. What kind of settlement does the narrator live in?
(a) Village.
(b) Suburb.
(c) City.
(d) Town.

5. How much does Caroline have to pay for her music lessons?
(a) $10 a month.
(b) $100 a year.
(c) Nothing.
(d) $10 a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes it difficult to breathe during the summer in Rass?

2. What is the name of Louise's mother?

3. What family tradition does the narrator's sister not keep?

4. Who gets the main solo at the Christmas concert?

5. Whom does Louise take with her every day after school lets out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Call and Louise do together to make money?

2. How do the girls in town feel about Mr. Rice?

3. How does Louise's relationship with Call and the Captain start to change, and why?

4. What does Caroline do after the Christmas Program?

5. When did Louise say she was the center of attention?

6. How does Louise feel after asking Call if she could join him in the things he does without her during the summer?

7. What does Louise feel guilty about after school lets out?

8. What does Louise do in addition to crabbing to earn some money?

9. What did the Captain want to do with Trudy's cats, and why did that not happen?

10. What kind of person does Louise say Caroline is after explaining her music lessons?

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