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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 does the sign inside the doctor's office say?
(a) Please be seated.
(b) Turn off cell phones please.
(c) No smoking.
(d) Patients will be seen in order of their arrival.

2. What does Janey do while Mrs. Romero takes care of Mrs. Larkin?
(a) Makes tea.
(b) Takes care of Betty.
(c) Cooks soup.
(d) Keeps a fire going.

3. Why does Dr. Pierce not take any money from Dad?
(a) Because he gets paid by the hospital.
(b) Because Mrs. Larkin is not going to recover.
(c) Because the money will be needed for medicine.
(d) Because he takes charity cases.

4. What does the end of the harvest represent to Janey?
(a) She will miss Lupe's birthday.
(b) The Camp School has to close.
(c) It will be Christmas before long.
(d) It will be getting colder.

5. The Larkins once lived _____________________.
(a) on a farm.
(b) on a houseboat.
(c) in a townhouse.
(d) in the suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Janey select from the traveling library?

2. Where does Janey's father take her at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What does the Larkin family have all they want of on the farm?

4. What does Janey sense as she sits near the river?

5. Janey is so happy that she feels as if she owns everything in sight and that _____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janey offer to Bounce as rent payment so that he will leave the house?

2. Why does Janey go to the Anderson house prior to the Larkin family's leaving the area and what does she learn from Mr. Anderson regarding her willow plate?

3. Why does the Camp School come to a close?

4. Who intrudes on Janey's contentment as she sits watching the ducks?

5. What disease is Mom diagnosed as having?

6. What does Janey notice as she waits for the teacher and other students at the Camp School?

7. What memory is prompted for Janey when seeing cows outside on a cold night?

8. Where does Janey decide to go since Dad is not going to work and won't be taking her to school this day?

9. Why does Janey have so much anxiety about the cotton picking contest?

10. Why does Dad enter into a fight with Bounce that could land Dad in jail?

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