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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. How does Paul describe the roadway on his street in Part 1?
(a) Graveled.
(b) Smooth.
(c) Cobbled.
(d) Crooked.

2. What is Paul deliberately delaying on the way home from school?
(a) The pleasure of seeing his own street.
(b) The pain of seeing his street.
(c) The pleasure of talking to the postman about snow.
(d) The pain of seeing no snow on his roof.

3. What does the rhythm of the postman's steps say when Paul's secret reveals itself?
(a) Peace, remoteness, and cold.
(b) Peace, remoteness, and warmth.
(c) Peace, closeness, and cold.
(d) Peace, closeness, and warmth.

4. What does Paul contemplate about the following morning in Part 2?
(a) If the postman will knock louder than usual.
(b) If the postman will skip his house.
(c) If he will hear the postman.
(d) If the postman will have trouble finding his house with all the snow.

5. How does Paul now view the bare roofs?
(a) As his failure.
(b) As his reality.
(c) As his imagination.
(d) As his reward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most distressing feature of Paul's secret?

2. What does Paul look past the snow to see in answering Miss Buell's question?

3. What does the snow form as Paul approaches his street?

4. How old is Paul, as it is revealed in Part 2?

5. Where is the birdhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul answer the doctor's repeated questions about his problem, and what is important about the way his mother reacts?

2. What is becoming more difficult for Paul to do, as he describes in Part 2?

3. How does Paul describe the sidewalk?

4. What reasoning does the snow give to Paul for the increasing darkness?

5. What does Paul's mother observe in Paul, and why is it significant?

6. What is interesting about the weather on Paul's way home, and what does it symbolize?

7. How does the author describe the floor in Paul's room in the last part of the story?

8. What is the first thing that the doctor does, and how does Paul respond to it?

9. What does Paul begin to wonder about as he stands in front of his house?

10. How does Paul view the snow at the beginning of Part 4?

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