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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandma Dowdel put in the bottom of the cauldron to prevent her apple butter from sticking?
(a) Quarters.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Pennies.
(d) Rice.

2. Who is described in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" as "A real old, humped-over lady with buck teeth" and crossed eyes that had been the telling the reporter tales at the cafe in town?
(a) Gertrude Smith.
(b) Mrs. Weidenbach.
(c) Effie Wilcox.
(d) Alice Thompson.

3. In what year is "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" set?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1929.

4. Who lives in the old dilapidated house that Grandma Dowdel takes Joey and Mary Alice to after fishing in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) Aunt Puss Chapman.
(b) Ernie Cowgill.
(c) Effie Wilcox.
(d) O. B. Dickerson.

5. What explodes outside of Grandma Dowdel's house in the beginning of "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) Her outhouse.
(b) Her tool shed.
(c) Her rose garden.
(d) Her mailbox.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue of the book, the narrator describes Grandma Dowdel as being as "tough as" what?

2. What is Grandma Dowdel holding in her hand when Joey rushes in after hearing Mary Alice screaming in the kitchen, in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

3. What does Grandma Dowdel tell Mary Alice that Shotgun Cheatham smelled like in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?

4. What does the new sign on the train platform say when Joey and Mary Alice get off at Grandma's in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

5. What nickname had the Thompson submachine gun gained after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, according to the narrator in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?

(see the answer key)

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