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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ada make for her mother in Chapter 1?

2. What month is it in Chapter 2?

3. What do Jamie and Ada eat for breakfast in Chapter 3?

4. What color dress is Miss Smith wearing in Chapter 6?

5. In Chapter 16, what time does Ada get home?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 20, how does Ada feel when Miss Smith puts her arm around Ada?

2. In Chapter 19, what birth dates does Miss Smith give for Ada and Jamie when registering for identity cards and why?

3. What happens at the airfield at the beginning of Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Ada's mother do when she goes to the window?

5. How does Ada help Margaret in Chapter 15?

6. In Chapter 16, why is Miss Smith worried about Ada?

7. In Chapter 9, who does Miss Smith say that Becky was?

8. Why do the church bells go off in Chapter 9?

9. In Chapter 4, how does Ada describe the train?

10. What does the doctor say about Jamie and Ada when he examines them in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Susan tells Ada that there are different types of truth in Chapter 46? What different types of truth are there? What does Susan mean by that statement?

Essay Topic 2

The author tells the story from Ada’s point of view. How does telling the story from Ada’s point of view help develop Ada as a character and help readers identify with her and her struggles?

Essay Topic 3

Both Ada and Miss Smith have handicaps. What handicaps do they both have, and how do those handicaps affect their lives and how they respond to life?

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