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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. How does Havey get exercise?
(a) By running round and round the barn while Bernie waters the animals.
(b) By running after rats and chickens.
(c) By running up and down the farm road to the barn.
(d) By chasing the Lady and nipping at the horses.

2. What ailment causes Bernie to talk about selling out every winter?
(a) Arthritis.
(b) Gout.
(c) Allergies.
(d) Rickets.

3. When the rats all come out on the Lady's command, who do they look at?
(a) The Lady.
(b) Whittington.
(c) The bantams.
(d) The horses.

4. How do the rats in the barn sleep?
(a) All rolled up together underground.
(b) Each in a separate small pile of shreddedhay.
(c) In groups of ten or twelve, with one always awake and watching.
(d) Bunched together in groups of two or three in hollows in the wood.

5. What is the weather like when Whittington first meets the Lady?
(a) Cold.
(b) Hot.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Hailing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color do the finches turn as spring approaches?

2. What does Bernie give Ted in exchange for hauling his horses?

3. What did Whitington's former family call him?

4. What does Bernie put down, to try to make the farm road more passable?

5. Where does Dick Whittington's cat put his killed rats while aboard ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Abby and Ben's parents?

2. How did Will Price get his scar?

3. Who brought the horses' ancestors to the Americas, and why?

4. In the fable the Lady tells, what does the rat save the lion from?

5. What is the one warm spot outside the barn during the snowy winter?

6. What is Whittington and the Lady's plan to stop Havey from always chasing the duck?

7. What worries Abby about the chickens' spring eating habits?

8. Why was a good rat hunter invaluable to Dick Whittington?

9. How does Whittington take his bath?

10. What does the Lady tell Whittington about the horses, when Whittington first arrives in the barn?

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