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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandma Dowdel roll across the floor at the Cowgill brothers when they break into her house in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) A cherry bomb.
(b) A hand grenade.
(c) A roll of money.
(d) A wooden nickel.

2. What kind of gun does Grandma Dowdel keep behind the woodbox?
(a) A 50-caliber Desert Eagle.
(b) A 12-gauge Winchester Model 21.
(c) A Colt AR-15.
(d) A Thompson submachine gun.

3. 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) Effie Wilcox.
(b) Alice Thompson.
(c) Mrs. Weidenbach.
(d) Gertrude Smith.

4. Who is the author of the book The Hidden Staircase that Mary Alice reads in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) Justine Butler.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Albert Wilson.
(d) Carolyn Keene.

5. In what year is "The Mouse in the Milk" set?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary Alice suspect her parents will go fishing while they are staying at Grandmother's in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?

2. Where does Grandma Dowdel assert Jesse and Frank James are from in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?

3. 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"?

4. Who is Grandma Dowdel's cousin that she mentions to the dairy delivery boy in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

5. What does Mrs. Wilcox say has been destroyed in the night at her home in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

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