View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what has almost everyone else at school seen that Annie has not?
(a) A dead person.
(b) A television set.
(c) An Obeah woman.
(d) A famous person.

2. How does Mrs. John teach Annie to bleach the white clothes?
(a) To lay them on white rocks to dry.
(b) To lay them on their roof to be closer to the sun.
(c) To add two ounces of liquid bleach to the laundry.
(d) To use special bark to make them whiter.

3. What can Annie see in the distance from her family's vacation home?
(a) The produce market.
(b) A furniture store.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A guava tree.

4. In Chapter 1, who dies that is Annie's age?
(a) The girl with the humpback.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Nalda.
(d) Mary.

5. Why does Annie stop playing with the dunce girl?
(a) All the answers are correct.
(b) She doesn't like the girl's poor manners.
(c) It seems shameful that her mother died and leaves the girl alone.
(d) She is tired of the other girls making fun of her for being the girl's friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who builds Nalda's coffin?

2. How old is Annie in Chapter 1?

3. Which of Annie's friends is known as a dunce?

4. What does Annie wonder while walking home from the dead girl's funeral in Chapter 1?

5. Where is Annie's family living when the daughter of her mother's friend dies?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 267 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample