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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. What happens when Uncle Paul visits one evening and Mrs. Metcalf is gone?
(a) He and Annie go for a ride on his motorcycle.
(b) He takes Annie to get ice cream.
(c) He goes back home.
(d) He and Annie go for a walk in the park.

2. How will Annie spend her time this summer?
(a) Some place other than Bible School.
(b) Bible School.
(c) At Miss Peterson's house.
(d) Visting the hospital with Miss Peterson.

3. Where would Annie's mother prefer that Annie's father work?
(a) County Hospital.
(b) Kansas City Memorial Hospital.
(c) St. John's Veterans Hospital.
(d) His own private practice.

4. Who is Ruth?
(a) Annie's mother's friend and a librarian.
(b) A friend of Annie's grandmother.
(c) The mother of one of Annie's school friends.
(d) Annie's mother's friend and a muscian.

5. The first Saturday after her father arrives, Annie's father is already awake and gone. Why is Annie almost glad he isn't home?
(a) She is still shy around him.
(b) She's not ready to talk about what she did when he was gone.
(c) She does not want to show him her report card.
(d) She is not ready to share Mother yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Annie's grandmother do when she heard that her son had died?

2. Who are Mrs. Metcalf's second group of friends?

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

4. What does Annie's father want to discuss after dinner the day Annie visits St. John's for the first time?

5. Why does Annie enjoy her grandmother's home-cooked meals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Uncle Paul visit Annie's mother frequently?

2. How do Annie, her family, and Ruth feel about the new war monument?

3. Why is Annie so bothered by the wounded soldiers she saw at the train station?

4. Why doesn't Annie's mother want her to visit St. John's?

5. What are Annie's activities when summer comes?

6. What two events drew Annie and her Uncle Paul closer together? Why?

7. Describe Dr. Metcalf's appearance the day after he returns home.

8. How were many soldiers burned?

9. Describe Mrs. Metcalf's friends.

10. Describe Annie's feelings as she goes to meet her father at the train station.

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