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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 are the occupations of the old women who are refugees?
(a) Music teachers and artists.
(b) Artists and poets.
(c) Writers and poets.
(d) Music teachers and writers.

2. Homer shares his name with a poet from what time period?
(a) Ancient America.
(b) Ancient Greece.
(c) Ancient China.
(d) Ancient Egypt.

3. When Gladys returns with Mr. Antrobus' slippers, she begs him to do what?
(a) Praise her just once.
(b) Teach her something just once.
(c) Sing to her just once.
(d) Look at her just once.

4. What does Mrs. Antrobus quote while Henry quotes the multiplication tables?
(a) Biblical story of creation.
(b) Biblical story of destruction.
(c) Biblical story of flood.
(d) Biblical story or repentance.

5. Mrs. Antrobus asks Sabina if she milked what?
(a) The cow.
(b) The elephant.
(c) The dinosaur.
(d) The mammoth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many old women are among the crowd of refugees at the Antrobus'?

2. Why does Mr. Antrobus smack Henry when he shows him the new invention?

3. Mrs. Antrobus says that she does not believe that sleeping with a window open is what?

4. While Mr. Antrobus drills Henry in the times tables, what does he order Mrs. Antrobus to teach Gladys?

5. What occupation does Mr. Antrobus give to Judge Moses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Antrobus say will make her happy at the convention?

2. What does Sabina talk about while books are being handed to her through the trap door?

3. Why do Sabina and Mrs. Antrobus blockade the door?

4. What does the promise between Mr. Antrbous and Mrs. Antrobus do?

5. In Mrs. Antrobus' speech to the international society of mammals, what does she list as her more important discoveries?

6. What is the emptiness that Mr. Antrobus admits to?

7. Who are "people of straw" according to Sabina?

8. Why does Mr. Antrobus yell for the fires to be put out?

9. Why does Mr. Antrobus vow to continue fighting Henry?

10. When does the true reconciliation for Henry and Mr. Antrobus occur?

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