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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the country folk cover their windows at night?
(a) To keep out the light of the missle blasts.
(b) To keep out the early morning sun.
(c) To keep invaders from their homes.
(d) To keep the bombers from seeing targets.

2. What upsets Carrie about George?
(a) He can act in the play and she can't.
(b) He teases her all of the time.
(c) He has opportunities she wants and he does not.
(d) He is smarter than she is.

3. How does Mr. Miller first greet Willie?
(a) Angrily, he is afraid he will steal from him.
(b) Sadly, he feels sorry for poor, skinny Willie.
(c) Happily, he is glad to have the Londoners in town.
(d) Frightened, he is afraid Willie will be bad.

4. What does Emilia Thorne often come to the house to do while Tom is at fire duty?
(a) Deliver books.
(b) Clean.
(c) Keep Willie company.
(d) Teach Willie rhymes and poems.

5. Why doesn't Willie want to go into the toy shop?
(a) He does not want to be alone.
(b) Willie can't buy one.
(c) He does not want Tom to buy him one.
(d) Willie is afraid he will break one.

6. What does Willie ask Tom to help him with while he is in the library?
(a) Learning his alphabet.
(b) Getting a book off of the shelf.
(c) Finding a book.
(d) Painting.

7. Why is the librarian astonished that Tom wants a card for Willie?
(a) She knows Willie can't read.
(b) She sees Tom as being uninvolved.
(c) Tom hates the library.
(d) There is a rule against cards for placed children.

8. What happens to Willie's desserts at the picnic?
(a) He eats them all.
(b) He hides what he can't eat.
(c) The other children help him finish them.
(d) Ants raid them.

9. What of Tom's did Zach use to finish the shelter?
(a) A pick ax.
(b) A lantern.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A ladder.

10. What is different about Zach that Tom and George both note?
(a) His lack of intelligence.
(b) His laugh.
(c) His vocabulary.
(d) His clothing.

11. What news does Zach bring to the kids about school?
(a) There will be a Christmas play.
(b) Mrs. Hartrigde is pregnant.
(c) The school will close because of the war.
(d) There will be a big carol chorus for Christmas.

12. How is Tom described in Chapter 1?
(a) Tall and thick.
(b) Average and thin.
(c) Average height and stocky.
(d) Small and thin.

13. What happens at the end of Chapter 2 that makes Willie smile?
(a) Tom gave him socks that were way too big.
(b) The dog licked his face.
(c) He ate potatoes.
(d) Tom let him cook.

14. What happens to Willie while he sleeps in the opening of Chapter 3, "Saturday Morning"?
(a) He has a wonderful dream.
(b) He wets the bed.
(c) He sleeps soundly for the first time in his life.
(d) He cries.

15. What is Tom carrying that surprises the librarian?
(a) A war poster.
(b) Paint supplies.
(c) A gas mask.
(d) Comic books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Willie have when he, Tom, and Sammy go out to the fields in Chapter 2?

2. What does Tom teach Willie to do on their walk to mail the postcard?

3. How does Willie feel about his first day of school?

4. What does Zach tell Willie that his parents do for a living?

5. What does George invite Willie to do the day after they build the shelter?

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