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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Mr. Scully's bed?
(a) He never uses sheets.
(b) He sleeps on the floor.
(c) He only uses one sheet.
(d) His bed is four feet high.

2. What does Ned think about Mr. Scully?
(a) He's not right in the head.
(b) He's mean.
(c) He's scary.
(d) He's old fashioned.

3. Of what does Ned feel a little jealous?
(a) His mother's close relationship with Hilary.
(b) His mother's close relationship with the neighbor's little girl.
(c) His mother's close relationship with his older sister.
(d) His father's close relationship with Hilary.

4. What does Ned decide about Charleston?
(a) He will do whatever his father tells him to do.
(b) He wants to go but only for the day.
(c) He does not want to go.
(d) He wants to go but not until the summer.

5. Why does the family sleep downstairs one night?
(a) There is a leak in the roof.
(b) There is a severe storm.
(c) They do not sleep downstairs.
(d) The furnace is broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned know about Mr. Scully and the man's house?

2. What does Ned's mother remind Ned to do?

3. When does he want to take Ned?

4. What does Mr. Scully give Ned for Ned's birthday?

5. What do Ned and Billy discuss?

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