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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. They scramble out of there, leaving behind what?
(a) Candy and cookies.
(b) A flashlight and beer.
(c) A knife and a handsaw.
(d) A cut up can.

2. Before Grandma leaves, about what does she warn Mary Alice?
(a) One of the teachers, Miss Butler.
(b) One of the students, Mildred Burdick.
(c) One of the students, Ina-Rae Gage.
(d) The Principal, August Fluke.

3. What do Grandma and Mary Alice do at the cobhouse?
(a) Place Bootsie on the wire.
(b) Taunt the boys.
(c) Go back inside the house.
(d) Hide and wait.

4. What does Grandma think of Bootsie the cat?
(a) She likes him a lot.
(b) She does not think about him often.
(c) She does not care for him.
(d) She does not like him.

5. The narrator tells the reader that her father lost his job and her brother Joey has joined __________.
(a) The military.
(b) A gang.
(c) The Civilian Conservation Corps.
(d) A union.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary Alice accompanies Grandma upstairs for what reason?

2. Grandma dodges Mary Alice's question of what?

3. Grandma says Mrs. Abernathy receives money from whom for her son, but it is not enough?

4. What is humorous about the answer to number 59?

5. The day proceeds, and most of the _________________ are bad shots.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Mary Alice go directly after arriving in town? What is happening there when Mary Alice arrives?

2. How does Grandma trick Mildred? What does this reveal about her?

3. How can Mary Alice now find out who the pranksters were?

4. Describe Halloween in this town. Why might it be like this?

5. What warning does Grandma give Mary Alice before she leaves her at school? What does this warning foreshadow?

6. How does Mary Alice react to Mildred's plan for getting her dollar from Mary Alice? What does this reveal about her?

7. How does Grandma defeat Mildred, the bully? What lesson does this teach Mary Alice?

8. What is a main reason for why Mary Alice does not want to move in with her grandmother? Why might she feel this way?

9. How does Grandma handle these pranksters?

10. How does Grandma greet Mary Alice? Why might she act this way?

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