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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Papa tell Robert that he wants to do to a neighbor's dog?
(a) Weasel it
(b) Adopt it
(c) Shoot it
(d) Train it

4. How does Pinky behave in the show ring?
(a) She runs away
(b) Uncooperatively
(c) Erratically
(d) Beautifully

5. What does Robert call Mr. Hillman's voice?
(a) An illness
(b) A boiling kettle
(c) A cry for help
(d) A sad song

6. What religion is Mr. Tanner?
(a) Methodist
(b) Baptist
(c) Jewish
(d) Catholic

7. What does Papa tell Robert before he leaves to go to the fair?
(a) Be polite to adults
(b) Don't take any wooden nickels
(c) Papa has never been to Rutland
(d) Listen to Mr. Tanner

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

9. Who is Ira Long?
(a) A traveling feed salesman
(b) The new school teacher
(c) Widow Bascom's hired man
(d) A plow repairman

10. What does Papa say Pinky should have done by now?
(a) Been slaughtered
(b) Hunted
(c) Run away
(d) Come into heat

11. What does Mr. Hillman reveal about the child in the small coffin?
(a) He is his wife's stillborn child
(b) He is an orphan
(c) He is his brother's child
(d) He is his illegitimate child

12. Mr. Tanner tells Papa and Mama that Robert _______________________.
(a) Is rude
(b) Was a great help
(c) Got lost
(d) Is sick

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

14. Whose voice does Robert not hear coming from downstairs?
(a) Papa's
(b) Mama's
(c) Aunt Carrie's
(d) Mrs. Hillman's

15. Jack informs his parents that Pinky _____________________.
(a) Was injured
(b) Ran away
(c) Won the prize for best-behaved pig
(d) Is sick

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the reasons for the troubles facing the Pecks?

2. Papa is famous for saying, "Never miss a chance to _______________________."

3. What does Robert have to do before he can go to the fair?

4. What is Robert's role in the barrel exercise?

5. What does Mr. Tanner warn Robert about when they reach the fairgrounds?

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