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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator keep from falling in the well in Chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Kinsella ties a rope around her waist.
(b) She kneels on the ground.
(c) Mrs. Kinsella holds the belt of her trousers.
(d) She holds onto a railing.

2. In Chapter 1, what the narrator thinks she looks like with her hair all loose?
(a) Vagrant child.
(b) Gypsy child.
(c) Wild child.
(d) A hobo.

3. In Chapter 2, when was the last rain shower?
(a) First of the month.
(b) Middle of the month.
(c) 3 months ago.
(d) 2 months ago.

4. On the wallpaper in the room where the narrator is sleeping at the Kinsella's house, what people are on the wallpaper?
(a) Children playing.
(b) Boys and girls running.
(c) Small boy.
(d) Families.

5. When does Mrs. Kinsella say she last saw the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) In the pram.
(b) When she was 2.
(c) When she was born.
(d) When she was 4.

6. In Chapter 2, how long has the narrator's mother said that Mrs. Kinsella can keep the narrator?
(a) Until summer.
(b) A couple months.
(c) Until school starts.
(d) As long as she likes.

7. What type are the fences around the Kinsella's fields?
(a) Rail fencing.
(b) Wood.
(c) Electric.
(d) Barbed wire.

8. What is different about the bath for the narrator from the ones she has had at home?
(a) Clean and fresh.
(b) Deeper and hotter.
(c) Smells good.
(d) Has bubbles.

9. What type of gate leads to the well on the Kinsella's property?
(a) Iron.
(b) Wire.
(c) Ash wood.
(d) Maple wood.

10. What is the first thing that Mrs. Kinsella wants the narrator to do after her father leaves?
(a) Go outside to play.
(b) Put away her things.
(c) Help clean the kitchen.
(d) Take a bath.

11. In Chapter 1, what is the weather like when the narrator and her father go for a drive?
(a) Warm and cloudy.
(b) Windy and sunny.
(c) Hot and sunny.
(d) Cloudy and windy.

12. What are on the wallpaper in the room where the narrator sleeps at the Kinsella's house?
(a) Cars and trucks.
(b) Sports equipment.
(c) Trains.
(d) Dinosaurs.

13. In Chapter 1, why is the narrator feeling bad when her father leaves?
(a) She feels homesick.
(b) She wishes her mother had come.
(c) He does not say goodbye.
(d) She wishes her sister had come.

14. In Chapter 2, when the wind blows, what color does the grass turn?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gray.

15. What would Mrs. Kinsella like to send the narrator's mother in Chapter 2?
(a) Money.
(b) Laborers.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator imagine that Mr. Kinsella might take her to town?

2. What does the narrator imagine that Mr. Kinsella might buy her in town?

3. What flowers can the narrator see from an upstairs window in Chapter 2?

4. What color hair does Mr. Kinsella have?

5. What type of steps lead upstairs from the kitchen at the Kinsellas?

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