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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Annie and her mother getting along now that her mother and her grandparents have returned from their trip?
(a) Their relationship is better than it ever has been.
(b) There is tension between them.
(c) They're planning on going to the hospital together.
(d) They are glad to be back together.

2. As the days pass since her grandparents and mother left, what does Annie begin to dread?
(a) Learning more about Uncle Paul's death.
(b) Her mother's return.
(c) The beginning of another school year.
(d) Visiting Andrew and Timothy.

3. Where do Annie's mother and her Uncle John go the evening after Annie's second visit to St. John's?
(a) To the library.
(b) To Annie's grandparents' home.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To find Annie's father.

4. Why is Annie so interested in the things that Ruth shows her?
(a) She wants to know more about the war.
(b) She is fascinated by foreign-sounding names and exotic places that she might visit.
(c) She loves to read.
(d) She enjoys poetry.

5. The day after Annie visits St. John's for a second time, Annie's mother decides to take a trip. Where is she going?
(a) To stay at Annie's grandparents' home.
(b) New York City.
(c) Estes Park, Colorado.
(d) To Ruth's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the soldiers from Uncle Paul's unit advise Annie to do when she meets him about a week after Andrew's surgery?

2. Annie runs away from one of the patients on her first visit to St. John's. Why does she go back?

3. Why does Annie spend a lot of time alone now that it is summer?

4. About a week after Andrew's surgery, Annie goes to St. John's earlier than usual. What good news does she hear?

5. Why, over the course of the summer, has Andrew's condition improved?

(see the answer key)

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