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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was a sign of spring in the village?
(a) School was out.
(b) The sound of sheep bells as they moved from one field to the next
(c) The sound of the organ
(d) The soldiers moving out

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

4. How did Maman and Grandpere respond when Jo asked them why the Germans wanted to kill the Jews?
(a) They refused to talk or look at him until he changed the subject.
(b) They said Hitler was jealous of the Jews since they were God's Chosen People.
(c) They didn't know, and they said the Germans made up their rules as they went along.
(d) They told him to ask questions like that.

5. What were Jo's nightmares about?
(a) Jewish children
(b) His father
(c) Bears and soldiers
(d) Fires

6. Where did Grandpere hide the hunting rifle?
(a) He didn't. He turned it in.
(b) In a tomb
(c) In a cave
(d) Under the floorboards in his house.

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

8. Where was the man from?
(a) America
(b) Germany
(c) Paris, France
(d) Switzerland

9. What did the widow ask if Jo could do?
(a) Carry her purchases home for her weekly
(b) Leave the room
(c) Check on her horse
(d) Wash her car

10. What did Laurent find on the class field trip?
(a) A plant the teacher couldn't identify
(b) A bear print.
(c) An eagle
(d) Leah's shoe

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

12. Why didn't Jo worry about the sheep?
(a) He hated them anyway.
(b) He knew Hubert would take care of them and bring them home.
(c) He knew they would wander home.
(d) They could fend for themselves.

13. How did Jo feel about the Widow Horcada?
(a) He loved her cooking.
(b) She was a woman to avoid.
(c) He loved her stories.
(d) He thought she was old and wise.

14. In the celebration of the capture, what was suddenly forgotten?
(a) The war
(b) School
(c) The children's bedtime
(d) Dinner

15. Why is the man hiding?
(a) He is a criminal on the run.
(b) He made people angry, and they want to kill him.
(c) He is a Jew.
(d) He has some valuables he is protecting for someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did they know the rescue was successful?

2. Where was Jo's father?

3. What did the strange man bring?

4. Who unexpectedly followed Jo when he took Grandpere up to the widow's house?

5. What was the man hiding in the barn?

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