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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert realize about the three people who love him aside from his parents?
(a) They are entrepreneurs
(b) They are all Baptists
(c) They are kind
(d) They are wealthy

2. What is Papa's last word to Robert as he drops him off at the Tanners'?
(a) Responsibility
(b) Restraint
(c) Manners
(d) Silence

3. What news does Papa tell Robert?
(a) Papa is dying
(b) The family is moving
(c) Papa and Mama are divorcing
(d) Robert can get a store-bought suit

4. What does Papa tell Robert that desecrate a grave means?
(a) Decorate
(b) Move a body to a different grave
(c) Dig up an established grave
(d) Dig a new grave

5. What challenge faces the Peck family as Chapter 14 begins?
(a) Mama has died
(b) Robert has mono
(c) Not enough food for the winter
(d) Snowed in by a blizzard

6. What does Robert tell Mr. Tanner about Papa's health?
(a) He has a bad cold
(b) He is terminally ill
(c) He is in remission
(d) He is fine

7. Papa tells Robert that both dying and ________________ are dirty business.
(a) Being born
(b) Branding
(c) Farming
(d) Living

8. Who had been the child's mother?
(a) Robert's teacher
(b) A hired woman in the Hillman home
(c) Mrs. Hillman
(d) Aunt Carrie

9. Aunt Carrie is obviously upset about the behavior of whom?
(a) Papa
(b) Widow Bascom
(c) Mr. Tanner
(d) Robert

10. Why does Robert want Pinky to have babies?
(a) He wants some piglets to play with
(b) The farm needs the money
(c) She will not be slaughtered
(d) She will be happy

11. What does Robert do at the death of Pinky?
(a) Laughs
(b) Screams
(c) Runs away
(d) Cries

12. Papa wants Robert to ______________________.
(a) Go away and join the Navy
(b) Become a minister
(c) Become a doctor
(d) Get a good education and use modern farming methods

13. What does Papa do with the animal in #126?
(a) Sets it free
(b) Shoots it
(c) Stabs it
(d) Puts it in a sack

14. What is in the grave with a small coffin?
(a) Two other small coffins
(b) A large coffin
(c) A treasure chest
(d) A toy

15. What is the purpose of what father wants to do to the neighbor's dog?
(a) Make the dog hate weasels
(b) Make the dog a good hunting dog
(c) Give the dog a good home
(d) Make the dog regret coming to his farm

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pinky behave in the show ring?

2. Mr. Tanner tells Papa and Mama that Robert _______________________.

3. What does Mama ask Robert to hunt for her?

4. What kills one of the hens during the night?

5. What has Mama never complained about according to Papa?

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