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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Someone Dying?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy do to the other boy who accuses him?
(a) He ignores him.
(b) He apologizes to him.
(c) He attacks him.
(d) He asks for proof.

2. What does the boy's mother allow him to choose?
(a) What plants to put around the house.
(b) What to eat for dessert.
(c) Going to public school or a private school.
(d) What to wear the next day.

3. What happens to the boy's uncle?
(a) He is sent to prison.
(b) He sneaks home to see the play.
(c) He protests against the boy's punishment
(d) He is killed by the Japanese.

4. Where does the class go on a field trip the first day of school?
(a) To the woods.
(b) To see a movie.
(c) To the soldier training camp.
(d) To the beach.

5. Why don't they wait for the next train?
(a) They are anxious to get to their destination.
(b) They think it would be quicker to take a bus.
(c) They are worried about who might be on that train.
(d) They don't know if it will come, and they need to leave the town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the teacher doing after the bookshop experience that makes the boy comment to his father?

2. What does the grandmother give the boy to help him keep warm?

3. What does the teacher in the sleeping quarters ask of the boy?

4. What does the grandmother put in the boy's lunch that upsets him?

5. What does the grandmother recommend they do when trying to fill the bag?

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