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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 cold is it on the night the black hen is frozen?
(a) Fifteen degrees below zero.
(b) Ten degrees below zero.
(c) Five degrees below zero.
(d) Zero degrees.

2. What is the first part of London that the travelers approach?
(a) The stockyard.
(b) The market gardens.
(c) The dumps and smelters.
(d) The outlying tanneries.

3. What does Bernie put down, to try to make the farm road more passable?
(a) Sand.
(b) Paving stones.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Gravel.

4. What is Havey named after?
(a) A type of engine.
(b) A motor oil.
(c) A tire company.
(d) A car model.

5. What does Whittington sound like the name of, to the Lady?
(a) A cemetary.
(b) A country.
(c) A town.
(d) A noble.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Lady feel when Whittington uses big words?

2. Which of the following was NOT one of Dick's "rememberables"?

3. What color is Abby's hair?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Whittington the cat look like?

2. How did Whittington's former owner's parents react to his reading problem?

3. How was Whittington separated from his boy?

4. How does the captain react to Dick Whittington's cat?

5. What book does Abby bring for Ben's reading lesson?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Whittington slip off and do immediately after the first part of his story about Dick Whittington?

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