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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 did the mother do as she considered the man's request to trade the umbrella for money?
(a) Twirled a lock of hair.
(b) Leaned against the building.
(c) Chewed her lower lip.
(d) Pulled her daughter closer to her.

2. How did the mother respond when the daughter asked what the man might be up to?
(a) Grumbled.
(b) Abruptly.
(c) Snapped.
(d) Barked.

3. How did the mother and daughter have to walk to keep up with the man on page 120?
(a) Very fast.
(b) Sprint.
(c) Race.
(d) Quickly.

4. How did the girl describe how the man moved as they tried to keep up with him?
(a) Deer.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Goat.
(d) Dog.

5. What type of person did the mother think he might be?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Titled.
(d) Retired politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the mother stand as she watched the old man move away?

2. For how many years did the old man say that he would not take any more than a pound for the umbrella?

3. Who did mother think the man might have been?

4. Why was the mother so horrible to the man in the beginning?

5. When the mother and daughter came to a corner, how close was the man to them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?

2. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?

3. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?

4. Why did the old man not walk home?

5. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?

6. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?

7. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?

8. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?

9. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?

10. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?

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