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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Dorothy and Palmer decide to do with Nipper?
(a) Take Nipper to Dorothy's house and hide him.
(b) Bring Nipper to the zoo.
(c) Take Nipper away from their neighborhood so he will be safe.
(d) Bring Nipper to a veterinarian's office.

2. What happens after Nipper lands on Palmer's head?
(a) Beans laughs at Palmer and calls him Pigeonhead.
(b) Beans runs up, grabs Nipper, and throws him at the feet of the shooter.
(c) Beans grabs Nipper and wrings his neck.
(d) Beans apologizes to Palmer for his cruelty.

3. Where has Palmer hidden after running away from the gang?
(a) At the park playground.
(b) In his bedroom with Nipper.
(c) At Dorothy's house.
(d) Behind a dumpster behind the supermarket.

4. What happens when Dorothy and Palmer return to Palmer's bedroom?
(a) Palmer's mother has fresh baked cookies waiting.
(b) Beans and Mutto are waiting at the door.
(c) Palmer's father wants to go to a ball game.
(d) Nipper is waiting at the window.

5. What did Palmer do when it was his turn to practice wringing a fake pigeon's neck?
(a) He wringed the fake pigeon's neck, threw it on the ground and walked away.
(b) He screamed at the teacher and walked away.
(c) He threw the fake pigeon at the teacher.
(d) He threw the fake pigeon at Beans and walked away.

6. What does Palmer do with his toy soldiers the day after the big battle he had staged with them and the enemy eraser?
(a) He puts them back in his dresser drawer.
(b) He puts them in his closet in a new box.
(c) He buries them in the back yard.
(d) He gives them back to his father.

7. Who does Palmer recognize as wringers, and what do they each do?
(a) Beans and Mutto working alone as wringers.
(b) Beans who wrings, Mutto who wrings, and Henry who bags the dead pigeons.
(c) Henry who wrings with his older brothers.
(d) Beans, Mutto and Henry who all wring the pigeon's necks.

8. What do the kids call the teacher of the class?
(a) The Pigeon Scout.
(b) The Wringer Expert.
(c) The Wringmaster.
(d) The Death Machine.

9. What does Palmer find in his bedroom when he rushes in?
(a) Nipper at the window and Dorothy shooting baskets.
(b) Nipper at the window and the yellow cat on his bed.
(c) Dorothy playing with Nipper and his Nerf ball.
(d) His mother looking at the mess in his room.

10. What do the boys run in to the den to look at again and again?
(a) The family portrait.
(b) Mr. LaRue's Sharpshooter Award.
(c) Mr. LaRue's big screen television.
(d) The dart board.

11. How does the gang treat Palmer now that he has refused The Treatment and left them?
(a) They break into his bedroom and mess up his room.
(b) They ask him to come back to the group now that he has gotten rid of Nipper.
(c) They tease him, including treestumping him, and spit on his shoes.
(d) They call him names and steal his bike.

12. Where does Palmer end up going on Saturday morning?
(a) He goes to the mall.
(b) He goes to his cousin's house.
(c) He goes to Dorothy's house.
(d) He goes to the pigeon shoot.

13. What does Palmer decide the message on his cake means?
(a) Nipper will not sleep in the closet tonight.
(b) He will get his birthday wish.
(c) Beans will try and catch Panther in Palmer's house.
(d) He will have visitors in his room that night.

14. What disconcerting information does Dorothy give to Palmer during the shoot?
(a) She has kept Nipper in her closet all this time.
(b) She let Nipper loose at the railroad yards.
(c) She let Nipper loose at the neighboring town.
(d) She let Nipper loose at the beach.

15. What do Dorothy and Palmer finally decide to do with Nipper?
(a) Let Palmer's parents help them make a plan for Nipper.
(b) Release Nipper in the park and leave food for him there.
(c) Dorothy will hide Nipper in her room until the gang leaves Palmer alone.
(d) Dorothy will release him far away while she is on vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry behave in Palmer's room?

2. What does Palmer imagine while looking for Nipper in the pigeon crates?

3. How does Palmer explain where he was when the gang came to his room the night before?

4. Where do Beans and the gang take Palmer the day after his birthday?

5. What does Palmer realize while hiding from the gang?

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