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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 does the woman cook for herself and the boy to eat?
(a) Ham and Lima beans.
(b) Fish and rice.
(c) Steak and green beans.
(d) Chicken and corn.

2. What are the only words the boy is able to say to the woman before he leaves her?
(a) Can I stay?
(b) Thank you.
(c) You've been kind.
(d) How can I repay you?

3. What does the woman tell the boy she hopes he can do from now on before she walks him out of her room?
(a) Behave.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Be more careful.
(d) Be smarter.

4. Who does the boy say is waiting at his house?
(a) Nobody.
(b) His mother.
(c) His Granny.
(d) His father.

5. What does the boy ask the woman when they get inside her room?
(a) If she is going to tell his father.
(b) If she is going to tell his mother.
(c) If she is going to take him to jail.
(d) If she is going to give him some money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do after washing his face when he does not know what else to do?

2. What does the woman leave on her daybed when she goes to cook for the boy?

3. What does the woman have the boy do as soon as he gets inside her room?

4. What does the woman tell the boy she was heading home to do when he tried to take her purse?

5. What does the woman give the boy for dessert?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Mrs. Jones show the boy trust while she cooks them a meal?

2. What is the boy's name? What is the first thing Mrs. Jones has him do when they enter her room?

3. What does Mrs. Jones tell the boy about herself over supper? Why is she careful not to ask him any questions about his life?

4. What words are used to describe the way Mrs. Jones handles the boy as the takes him out the street to her house?

5. What does the boy offer to do for the woman while she prepares their supper?

6. What does the woman give the boy before he leaves? What does she tell him?

7. What does the boy say to the woman before he leaves? What did he want to say?

8. What does the boy tell Mrs. Jones when she asks if he has eaten supper?

9. What does the boy tell the woman he wanted to buy when he tried to steal her purse? What does she say he could have done instead?

10. Where does Mrs. Jones live? How is the place described? How does the boy know there are others in the house?

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