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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 In a Stranger's Backyard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At school the teachers and other students are polite but ______________.
(a) distant.
(b) confused.
(c) angry.
(d) noncommittal.

2. The story is told about the period of _________________.
(a) The Korean War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War I.

3. What does the mother recall that she had been too tired to get the father the night he was taken away?
(a) A beer.
(b) A drink of water.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) A glass of wine.

4. When the boy listens to the radio at night, he imagines himself to be ______________________.
(a) a heroic and decorated soldier.
(b) Gene Autry.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Joe DiMaggio.

5. What bothers the boy about where his father is now?
(a) That he is being tortured.
(b) That he doesn't have enough to eat.
(c) That he is all alone.
(d) That he doesn't have proper clothes to wear.

Short Answer Questions

1. The boy has a picture of whom fastened to the wall?

2. What did the family live in while at the Tanforan Racetrack?

3. What does the woman do to the old dog she has fed?

4. What is the family preparing to do as the story begins?

5. How often does the girl's father write letters to the family?

(see the answer key)

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