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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Grandpere talking with the German soldier about?
(a) His son in the prison camp
(b) They had most likely fought against each other when they were young.
(c) Camping
(d) What to do about Jo

2. Who was Jo's companion as he watched the sheep?
(a) Rouf
(b) Hubert
(c) The pastor.
(d) Grandpere

3. Why was Rouf barking?
(a) Strangers were coming near the field.
(b) The sheep were all wandering off.
(c) A bear was coming by the sheep.
(d) One of the sheep was drowning.

4. What job did Jo have when the book started?
(a) He was watching the sheep.
(b) He tended the fire at the schoolhouse.
(c) He played the organ in church
(d) He worked at the store.

5. Where did Jo think Benjamin and Leah might be hiding if they hadn't been caught?
(a) In the water
(b) In some bushes
(c) In Papa's hut
(d) Behind a tree

6. What impressed the widow about the boy?
(a) His cleanliness
(b) His strength
(c) His grasp of language
(d) His honesty

7. What does the Corporal offer to do for Jo?
(a) He offers to watch the sheep for Jo.
(b) He offers to put Jo in contact with his father.
(c) He offers to help Jo with his homework.
(d) He offers to help carry the food to Widow Horcada.

8. What does the widow know about Jo's father?
(a) She knows that he is coming home soon.
(b) She knows that he is a vegetarian.
(c) She knows he is dead.
(d) She knows he is a prisoner-of-war.

9. Where were Benjamin and Leah hiding?
(a) Up in a tree
(b) In an abandoned car
(c) In the swamp
(d) In a cave by the stream that they used as a donkey shed

10. What did Grandpere do when he saw Widow Horcada?
(a) He spat on the ground.
(b) He turned his back on her.
(c) He held out his arms and called to her.
(d) He laughed.

11. What new rule did the Germans initiate in the town when they moved in?
(a) They couldn't write any more letters to their loved ones.
(b) They had to use German money.
(c) There was to be a strict curfew.
(d) They had to give the Germans a portion of their food supply.

12. What did Jo and Laurent pretend to be?
(a) Thieves
(b) Bears
(c) German soldiers
(d) Beggars

13. The soldiers were trying to prevent people's escape to where?
(a) America
(b) Spain
(c) Germany
(d) France

14. Why were Benjamin and Leah running the night before when he was injured?
(a) There were soldiers everywhere.
(b) They were having a race to the border.
(c) They wanted the exercise.
(d) They were chasing some Jewish children.

15. Why did the widow need more supplies?
(a) Leah ate a lot of food.
(b) There were now five children to look after.
(c) The soldiers kept taking her food.
(d) The food kept rotting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jo get the Corporal to stop helping him?

2. Why was Jo able to go to the widow's house?

3. What did Jo do after the man walked off?

4. What did Laurent find on the class field trip?

5. Who came to help Jo?

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