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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 In a Stranger's Backyard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mother tell the boy they will do when the war is over?
(a) Go to Disneyland.
(b) Go to Japan.
(c) Go home.
(d) Go to the Grand Canyon.

2. How does the boy know that his mother is depressed?
(a) She won't eat anything.
(b) She won't get out of bed.
(c) She doesn't pay any attention to him.
(d) She yells at him all the time.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the boy's favorite interests?
(a) Collecting stamps.
(b) Flying kites.
(c) Baseball.
(d) His pet tortoise.

4. What advice does the boy receive from his father in a letter?
(a) It is better to bend than to break.
(b) Stay the course.
(c) The early bird gets the worm.
(d) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

5. Where is the father at this point in time?
(a) He is at home.
(b) He is still incarcerated.
(c) He is working in New York.
(d) He has been sent to Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl see in the moonlight when she looks out the train window?

2. The woman's husband had first been taken to Montana and then to ________________.

3. What has happened to the family's furniture?

4. When the boy's sister comes in at night she smells like __________________.

5. What news arrives via telegram one day?

(see the answer key)

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