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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Annie's mother react to what she sees at the train station?
(a) She starts an argument.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She decides to help the wounded soldiers.
(d) She is disturbed to see all the wounded soldiers.

2. The first evening Annie spends alone with her uncle, he tells her that she is "a person of taste." Why does he say that?
(a) Annie appreciates his motorcycle.
(b) Annie likes the songs he sings.
(c) Annie appreciates his music.
(d) Annie bakes good cookies.

3. Annie runs away from one of the patients on her first visit to St. John's. Why does she go back?
(a) Her father asks her to go back.
(b) She drops her book and goes back to get it.
(c) She tells her grandfather and he asks her to go back.
(d) She thinks of something she would like to ask the soldier.

4. What did Annie's grandfather do when he heard his son had died?
(a) Did not talk for two days.
(b) Punched his fist through a wall.
(c) Went for a long walk.
(d) Chopped wood for an hour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the family do after dinner in Chapter 2?

2. What horrifies Annie at the train station?

3. Who are Mrs. Metcalf's first group of friends?

4. Why does Annie sometimes feel shut out of her mother's life?

5. How did Annie and her mother get along while her father was gone?

(see the answer key)

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