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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. In Chapter 10, when does Emilie wake feeling better?
(a) Lunchtime on Christmas day.
(b) Breakfast on Christmas day.
(c) Dusk on Christmas.
(d) Evening on Christmas.

2. What illness does Emilie have in Chapter 10?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. What season is it in Chapter 17?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Winter.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what does Joey hear?
(a) Cannons firing.
(b) Machine guns.
(c) Excitement and laughter.
(d) Yelling and shouting.

5. How is Joey taken from no-man's land in Chapter 17?
(a) Veterinary wagon.
(b) Led by a couple soldiers.
(c) Hay wagon.
(d) Ridden away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a soldier give Joey and Topthorn in Chapter 10?

2. What season is it in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 15, how long does Joey stand by Topthorn and Friedrich?

4. In Chapter 9, what color uniforms do the Germans wear?

5. What injuries do most of the wounded have on Christmas day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the war move away in Chapter 11?

2. What happens when the shelling starts in Chapter 14?

3. In Chapter 17, who is Joey reunited with, and what is the reunion like?

4. What happens to Emilie in Chapter 10, and what does her grandfather say to the horses about her illness?

5. How do Joey and Topthorn feel during the summer in Chapter 10?

6. What horses do Joey and Topthorn pull the guns with in Chapter 12?

7. In Chapter 16, who comes to help Joey, and how is it decided where Joey will go?

8. How does Topthorn die?

9. In Chapter 12, what trouble does Topthorn begin to have, and what does the vet say about his condition?

10. How are Topthorn and Joey doing when spring comes in Chapter 13?

(see the answer keys)

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