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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 Sam get the children excited about?
(a) The possibility of a big job.
(b) A large fish.
(c) The fantasy of living in a big house.
(d) A deer.

2. What does Sam say when Louie confesses to him?
(a) She did the right thing.
(b) He does not believe her.
(c) He has to report her.
(d) He was going to do it himself.

3. What does Sam say about Louie ever leaving?
(a) He says if she tries to leave he will kill her.
(b) He says that she can go whenever she likes.
(c) He says that if she wants to leave, she will have to pay her own way.
(d) He says she can never leave him.

4. What does Louie tell her father she wants to do?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Leave Spa House.
(c) Kill Henny.
(d) Kill him.

5. Who is Cathleen?
(a) Josephine Pollit's daughter.
(b) Henny's new maid.
(c) Hassie's only daughter.
(d) Hazel Moore's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Henny begun to do in front of the children?

2. What news comes at the end of the celebration at Tohoga House?

3. Sam and the other children make fun of Ernie for _____________.

4. What happens when Sam opens the crates he brought home from Malaysia?

5. What had Sam brought back from Malaysia in the crates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that upsets Sam during his homecoming celebration?

2. How do things come to a head with Colonel Willets and Sam?

3. What leads up to Henny's death?

4. How does Henny die?

5. Describe Louie's experience in a new school.

6. Describe Henny's fight with Louie.

7. Describe the opening of the crates from Sam's trip.

8. How does the topic of poetry figure in Sam's homecoming celebration?

9. How does Sam react to the birth of a new baby?

10. What does Sam do on account of Jo's news?

(see the answer keys)

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