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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 does Martin's mom's behavior change after she receives the gifts in the Christmas box?
(a) She stops working in the garden.
(b) She invites friends into her home.
(c) She begins to study with Martin.
(d) She starts singing all the time.

2. When Anne is finally able to talk to Martin's headmaster, how much money does she discover it will take to keep Martin and his siblings in school?
(a) $80 U.S. dollars.
(b) $50.00 U.S. dollars.
(c) $400 U.S. dollars.
(d) $200 U.S. dollars.

3. When Martin receives two $20 bills from Caitlin, what does he assume?
(a) That she is very rich.
(b) That she is very stubborn.
(c) That she is very smart.
(d) That she is very selfish.

4. What is the name of the foreign exchange student that comes to stay with Caitlin's family?
(a) Stormy.
(b) Stephie.
(c) Stacie.
(d) Stella.

5. How do Martin and his mother get to the bank after they received Caitlin's gift of money in May of 1999? (Chapter 16)
(a) They take the bus.
(b) They walk.
(c) They call a taxi.
(d) They take their canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Martin's father pay for the photographer to take Martin's photograph?

2. What gift does Caitlin receive the Christmas before she turns 16?

3. What does Martin tell Caitlin about monkeys?

4. What does Caitlin first send to Martin that he thinks is rare and expensive?

5. Martin needs a dollar to take an exam allowing him to move to the next grade. How does he get it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting of Caitlin's hometown?

2. How do Martin's letters to Caitlin change after Caitlin sends him money? (Chapter 17).

3. Why is Caitlin excited about choosing a pen pal from Zimbabwe when she is in seventh grade?

4. What is Martin's father's reaction to his son receiving the highest score in all of Mutare on a national placement test?

5. What does Caitlin do to help support Martin without asking her parents for more money? (Chapter 29)

6. What does Simba do that causes his parents to feel shame?

7. What assumptions does Caitlin make about Martin?

8. What is Martin's reaction to receiving Caitlin's photograph?

9. How does Caitlin feel about wearing the earrings that Martin sent her?

10. At the beginning of the book, Chapter One, what kind of student does Caitlin say she is?

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