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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 does Anna not like about playing with the girls at school?
(a) Playing separate from the boys.
(b) Jumping rope.
(c) Having to follow the leader.
(d) The amount of gossip the girls do.

2. Where has Anna's father gone?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Paris.
(c) England.
(d) Prague.

3. From where are the two German children who come to play with Anna and Max?
(a) Stuttgart.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.

4. Where does Anna's grandmother live?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Munich.
(d) Zurich.

5. What does Anna think about what she is learning from her teacher?
(a) He is interesting and she has learned a lot.
(b) She thinks he is a little young to be teaching.
(c) She'd rather have a woman teacher.
(d) He does not seem to teach them much.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anna feel about her new school?

2. Why does Anna's mother learn knitting?

3. What does Anna hear her mother talking about with her grandmother?

4. Why would Anna's family leave Switzerland?

5. Who is Max's friend at school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Onkel Julius have to tell when he visits and why is the family's finances troubled?

2. Why does Anna fight with her teacher, who gives her a hard time and what does her mother do?

3. In what city are Anna and her family's passports checked, and why might this be dangerous?

4. How is Anna's father feeling about his work and Germany?

5. What happens to Pumpel and how does Omama feel about it?

6. Why is there some tension between Anna and Vreneli?

7. What does the family spend the next two weeks talking about and what do Anna's mother and father do after that? What do Anna's parents do everyday?

8. Who is the first character introduced in the book, what year is it, how old is she and where does she live? Who is her sibling?

9. Who comes home from school with Anna and her sibling, and what do they do?

10. What does Anna's mother tell her and her brother about the news her mother gives them?

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