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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Sonoma County, California.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dave do when he finds that his stab wound is infected?
(a) He goes to Stan for help.
(b) He goes to his father for help.
(c) He goes to his mother for help.
(d) He takes care of it himself.

3. What does Dave's mother do after Dave is stabbed?
(a) She carries him to the garage and leaves him there.
(b) She leaves him bleeding on the floor.
(c) She props him up on the toilet and wraps his wound.
(d) She calls her husband to help.

4. What are the contents of the lunch Dave's mother has been making him every day for three years?
(a) Two tuna sandwiches and an apple.
(b) Two bologna sandwiches and carrot sticks.
(c) Two peanut butter sandwiches and carrot sticks.
(d) Two jelly sandwiches and an apple.

5. When does Dave's mother start decorating for the Christmas holidays in Chapter 2, Good Times?
(a) The week before Christmas.
(b) The day after Thanksgiving.
(c) Right after Halloween.
(d) Christmas Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who checks for new injuries on Dave every morning before school starts?

2. What is the one thing Dave wants, even more than food in Chapter 6, While Father is Away?

3. When Dave's mother receives the phone call from the authorities in Chapter 1, The Rescue, what is she told?

4. Once school starts again in Chapter 4, The Fight for Food, what is Dave's mother feeding him?

5. How does Dave's mother look on a typical day?

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