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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. How is Tom feeling when Willie arrives at carol practice?
(a) Shy.
(b) Sad because Rachel is not there.
(c) Angry because Willie is late.
(d) Frightened.

2. What does Willie teach himself to do after Zach dies?
(a) Act in a play.
(b) Ride a bicycle.
(c) Dance.
(d) Write poetry.

3. How does Willie feel after spending the early evening with his mother?
(a) Like two people.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

4. What is celebrated on September 7th, 1940?
(a) Willie's birthday.
(b) Zach's birthday.
(c) Tom's birthday.
(d) D-day.

5. What is Willie able to do in the water almost immediately.
(a) Breaststroke.
(b) Float.
(c) Dive.
(d) Backstroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What separates Carrie from the other girls at the high shool?

2. What is Tom's first reaction to the singing of the choir?

3. What happens when Willie reads the part in Robert's absence?

4. How do Tom, Zach, and Willie travel to the fishing village?

5. Why does Willie wish he had never gone to Weirwold?

Short Essay Questions

1. At first, how does Zach's death affect Wiliie?

2. How is Willie similar and different from the boy that Tom met at the beginning of the novel?

3. Now that Willie has arrived back in London, both he and his mother can see how much he has changed. What changes are there in Willie and how do these changes affect his relationship with his mother?

4. What does Tom reveal for the first time in "The Show Must Go On"? Why does he reveal it and to whom?

5. How does Willie stand up for himself in Chapter 20, "Spooky Cott," and how is this new for him?

6. Once again, there is great suspense. Describe the suspense in Chapter 17, "The Rescue."

7. Whose points of view are seen throughout Chapter 16, "The Search"? Explain what is seen by each.

8. Once again in this novel, two people with tragedy in their lives will come together and help each other heal. In Chapter 20, "Spooky Cott" who does Willie meet and how will their meeting help each of them?

9. What does everyone at the rehearsal discover about Willie? How does this discovery affect him? How is this discovery not surprising?

10. By the end of Chapter 19, "The Sea! The Sea! The Sea!," Tom's character has changed from the man that he was before Willie came into his life. How has Tom changed and how is it specifically seen in this chapter?

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