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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nels do the night the boys get into trouble for breaking into a store?
(a) Works to make extra money for the family.
(b) Stays home to listen to a story.
(c) Takes Christine to the doctor.
(d) Helps Papa with household chores.

2. Which items hang proudly on the wall in Mama and Papa's bedroom?
(a) The children's birth certificates.
(b) The family portraits.
(c) A map of San Francisco.
(d) A Norwegian flag.

3. How does Mama finally sneak in to see her child at the hospital?
(a) She pretends to be a nurse.
(b) She pretends to deliver a package.
(c) She pretends to be part of the cleaning staff.
(d) She sneaks back when no one is watching.

4. What does Katrin do to try to get the money she needs to pay for the writing brochures?
(a) Sell her rollerskates.
(b) Babysit her neighbors.
(c) Finish Christine's homework.
(d) Write an essay.

5. This event causes finances to be low at the beginning of Chapter 2.
(a) The strike.
(b) Nels is arrested.
(c) Papa leaves the family.
(d) Christine becomes ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item acts as a sense of security for the children?

2. How does Mama prefer to clean floors?

3. Which character is with Uncle Chris when he passes away?

4. What does the narrator try to give Mama at the end of Chapter 1?

5. What happens the same day the family moves to the Steiner Street house?

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