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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. In what country has Jamie been living?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

2. Which of the following do Granda Hugh and Gran Margaret NOT know much about?
(a) Finances.
(b) Trees.
(c) Stones.
(d) Rivers.

3. What is Jamie's Gran's first name?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Margie.
(c) Marguerite.
(d) Marie.

4. What was the name of Hugh and Margaret's son?
(a) Richard.
(b) Reuben.
(c) Robert.
(d) Ralph.

5. What method of transportation is Jamie taking to depart?
(a) A train.
(b) A plane.
(c) A boat.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Jamie and his parents going?

2. Who was the consulate that Hugh wished were his father?

3. What awakens Jamie in the house one night?

4. Who did Famie despise after her husband's death in the war?

5. What does Robert do after someone breaks into the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did little Hugh spend much of his childhood?

2. What feelings of Granda Hugh's come out regarding Jamie's leaving home years ago?

3. How does the author use weather as a literary device to convey mood?

4. Why is Jamie so sad to be leaving Mrs. Drake?

5. Why are Granda Hugh's buildings now a metaphor for his physical condition?

6. What is life like for Jamie at Granda Hugh and Gran Margie's house?

7. Describe the incident of Jamie's father keeping watch in the bushes with a knife.

8. Describe Granda Hugh as Jamie sees him for the first time in ten years.

9. How does Jamie manage to get himself removed from his abusive home?

10. Why does Jamie feel the need to protect his mother from his father?

(see the answer keys)

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