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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many die in Chapter 23 when their battleship sinks?

2. In Chapter 33, how long does Dr. Graham say that Ada would have to stay in the hospital if she has an operation on her foot?

3. What sinks in Chapter 23?

4. What part of England does Ada say that they are living in in Chapter 37?

5. In Chapter 30, what color dress does Susan make for Ada?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Graham tell Ada about the operation she might have to fix her foot?

2. What is the dress like that Susan makes for Ada for Christmas?

3. Why does Lady Thorton pound on Susan's door in Chapter 36?

4. What does Ada see from the hill in Chapter 39?

5. In Chapter 38, why does Ada not like the bomb shelter, and how does Susan try to help?

6. What do Jamie and Ada get in their Christmas stockings?

7. What happens to the "Royal Oak" in Chapter 23?

8. In Chapter 23, why does Susan tell Ada that the next time they go to the movies, they will wait in the lobby until the newsreel is over?

9. What alarms Ada at the beginning of winter in Chapter 28?

10. In Chapter 26, what does Grimes find to make it easier for Ada to ride and how does it help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Ada breaks the sewing machine, she is terrified and goes to hide under a bed. How does Ada punish herself in that situation? How often does Ada use self-punishment for imagined wrongs that she does and why? How does she finally learn to deal with her mistakes without punishing herself?

Essay Topic 2

Ada’s mother deliberately mistreats her and Jamie. Miss Smith accidentally mistreats Butter. What is the motive between the mistreatment that Mam and Miss Smith inflict? What difference does motive make when mistreatment happens?

Essay Topic 3

Susan tells the children that they saved her life. How do the children save Susan’s life emotionally and physically?

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