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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 is Max's primary desire in school?
(a) To be the top student.
(b) To have a girlfriend.
(c) To not be at the very bottom of the class.
(d) To look like and fit in with the other boys.

2. What has to happen in order to pass the French elementary school exam?
(a) Half of the subjects must be passed.
(b) All of the sections have to be completed at least halfway.
(c) All subjects must be passed.
(d) The sections must all be passed with a 95% or better.

3. How does Max fare in his class on the exam?
(a) Best student in class.
(b) He was about average.
(c) Almost the worst student in the class.
(d) He did not take the exam.

4. What is the year and season at the start of Chapter 20?
(a) Winter of 1936.
(b) Winter of 1935.
(c) Summer of 1934.
(d) Spring of 1936.

5. What would Anna's mother do with extra money?
(a) Put it in a savings account.
(b) Buy a television.
(c) Take the family on a vacation.
(d) Buy Anna shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is everyone in Anna's household doing in Chapter 20?

2. What has Anna's mother found for her and Max by the end of Chapter 14?

3. What kind of teacher is the woman in question #97?

4. What knowledge did the woman in question #97 not use much before so many refugees came to France?

5. What kind of Christmas does Anna's family have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the French elementary school exam.

2. How do Anna and Max finally go to school and what is difficult for them?

3. What is Anna's father attempting to do to earn more money and how does this lead her mother to want to move to England?

4. With what family does Anna's family spend time and why?

5. What is the gist of the good and bad news that comes in Chapter 23?

6. What is the problem with the gift Anna's father bought her mother and what do they try to do?

7. How is Anna's family doing by the spring, what are they doing and who in the household feels gloomy? Why does she feel gloomy?

8. How does Anna get new shoes?

9. How is the family's first Christmas in Paris and why is it that way?

10. What disturbs Anna's father and how is the situation resolved?

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