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

2. What do the father's papers say?
(a) He has permission to travel.
(b) He is allowed out of the country for one week.
(c) He has been acquitted for his thievery.
(d) He is innocent of murder.

3. Who meets the mother after several hours?
(a) The police.
(b) The ticket clerk.
(c) The father.
(d) The conductor, on his way back.

4. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?
(a) He wouldn't have approved.
(b) He would have thought it was a waste of time.
(c) He would have thought the trip was extremely valuable.
(d) He would have wished that he could be there, too.

5. Why is the boy in a hurry to get to Sunday school?
(a) He is the teacher that day.
(b) He loves to learn about God.
(c) He wants to have time with his friends.
(d) He knows they are having a special speaker that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps teach the boy to hunt?

2. Who comes to visit the boy after school on the first day?

3. What religion do the father and mother follow?

4. How old is the author in 1933?

5. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the family travel to the town?

2. What will happen to the tenant farmer when he gets a wife?

3. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

4. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

5. What kind of character does the teacher have?

6. How does the father show his dedication to his wife?

7. How does the boy respond when the poor children come up to him and ask him to go swimming with them?

8. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

9. What is significant about the maps in the classroom?

10. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

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