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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 is Adah's mother's occupation?
(a) Seamstress.
(b) Poultry farmer.
(c) Weaver.
(d) Sheep herder.

2. How many trips does Adah have to make to fill the water container when she lives on Pike Street?
(a) 14 to 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 10 to 12.
(d) 13.

3. How long does Pa say in the hospital before he dies?
(a) A month.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) A week or two.

4. What month is it in Chapter 5?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) May.
(d) June.

5. How much does Adah pay the daily-minder to watch her children in Chapter 4?
(a) 4 pounds a week.
(b) 7 pounds a week.
(c) 5 pounds a week.
(d) 6 pounds a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Adah's husband, Francis, studying to be?

2. How old is Adah's mother when she dies?

3. What color headscarves do the women wear who greet Layer Nweze when he arrives?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Adah try to hit Trudy with?

5. How much more expensive was the school Adah attended before her father's death than the school she attends after her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Pa's mother promise when she was dying, and who does she return as?

2. In Chapter 3, what is the train ride to London like for Adah and her family?

3. What happens a few months after Adah starts school?

4. Who is Mrs. Konrad?

5. Why does Adah not know for sure how old she is, and how does she estimate her age?

6. How does Adah get the money to take the entrance examination for the Methodist Girls' High School, and what does she pay for her theft?

7. What does Adah do when she wants to go to school and no one will send her?

8. What happened to Adah's family after her father died?

9. At the beginning of Chapter 3, why is there a sudden burst of excitement on the ship?

10. What does Adah come to think about her birthplace?

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