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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Henny after David Collyer's funeral?
(a) When they will be evicted.
(b) Who she can ask for money.
(c) How she will get through the summer without Louie or Hazel Moore.
(d) Where they will get money from.

2. What is Sam's response to this event?
(a) He is determined to enjoy the summer.
(b) He consumes himself in preparing to present his case.
(c) He rants and raves about the injustice of it.
(d) He starts looking for work immediately.

3. How does Henny characterize Louie's teacher?
(a) Hoity-toity.
(b) Disreputable.
(c) Salt of the earth.
(d) Slovenly.

4. How does Bert Anderson disappoint Henny?
(a) He refuses to listen to her complain.
(b) He tells her to count her blessings.
(c) He walks away from their conversation.
(d) He does not have money to give her.

5. Why doesn't Sam tell Henny this news?
(a) She is about to go into labor.
(b) She will ruin the party.
(c) He is saving it for the right moment.
(d) She doesn't want to know it.

6. What does Cathleen love more than anything?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Reading.
(c) Dolls.
(d) Cooking.

7. What upsets Sam after Henny gives birth?
(a) Louie is taking care of the baby.
(b) She has hired a nurse.
(c) There is no one to take care of the baby.
(d) The house is full of people who have come to take care of the baby.

8. How does Henny escape from the house?
(a) She disappears.
(b) She locks herself in her room.
(c) She goes for a long walk.
(d) She goes to Washington D.C.

9. Bonnie keeps asking ______________.
(a) For her baby.
(b) To return home.
(c) To see a nurse.
(d) About the baby's father.

10. What happens to Louie in her first days in high school?
(a) She implodes.
(b) She fades.
(c) She sinks.
(d) She blossoms.

11. What does Sam say to excuse Henny's behavior when she beats Ernie for no reason?
(a) These things happen.
(b) Ernie had it coming.
(c) She didn't mean it.
(d) It is one of her moods.

12. What does Sam propose to Bonnie?
(a) She should be institutionalized.
(b) She should move away.
(c) She should marry the baby's father.
(d) She should move into Spa House.

13. What does Henny accuse Bert Anderson of?
(a) Being selfish.
(b) Hating her.
(c) Secretly loving her.
(d) Sleeping around.

14. What makes Sam furious after the reading of the will?
(a) His plans for further expeditions will have to be delayed.
(b) Henny was overlooked like she was.
(c) David Collyer hadn't spoken to him about his will before he died.
(d) Almost all the property will have to be sold.

15. Sam and the other children make fun of Ernie for _____________.
(a) His weight.
(b) His awkwardness with girls.
(c) His concern about money.
(d) His foolishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sam in mid-summer?

2. Where is the house Sam finds?

3. What does Henny snap at when she is in a foul mood?

4. What does Sam offer Bonnie?

5. What does the narrator say is clear has happened since Henny left Tohoga House?

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