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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, While Father is Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Dave and his brothers allowed to do on Christmas Eve in Chapter 2, Good Times?
(a) Stay up late.
(b) Open one present.
(c) Wait for Santa until they fall asleep.
(d) Make cookies.

2. How does Dave get caught asking for food on the way to school?
(a) His brothers see him going up to houses.
(b) His father catches him at a neighbor's house.
(c) His mother sees him as she drives his brother's to school.
(d) He accidentally goes to a house where a woman knows his mother.

3. What are most of Dave's parent's arguments about?
(a) Dave.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Money problems.
(d) Dave's brothers.

4. What is the favorite thing Dave's mother does for her family Chapter 2, Good Times?
(a) Washing and ironing their clothes.
(b) Praying with them before bed.
(c) Creating new and exotic meals.
(d) Singing to them at bedtime.

5. What is Dave's mother's reaction when she receives a call from the principal about Dave's condition in in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food?
(a) She resists the urge to beat Dave.
(b) She ties Dave to a chair for the night.
(c) She puts Dave in the basement all night.
(d) She gives Dave two bloody noses and knocks out a tooth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave's mother proceed to do after she announces to her children that she is sick Chapter 2, Good Times?

2. When Dave's mother returns from the zoo, what does she do to him?

3. How is Dave treated by the rest of the family when his mother is in the hospital?

4. What kind of a housekeeper is Dave's mother during the good times?

5. What does Dave's mother explain to her children while their cat is having kittens?

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