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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Grandma Dowdel describe Shotgun Cheatham when Mary Alice asks her who he was in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) "He was a Civil War General and fought alongside Ulysses S. Grant."
(b) "He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke."
(c) "He was a bank robber and a horse thief."
(d) "He was a priest before he left the church and died."

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

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

4. Why does Grandma Dowdel say to "Never trust an ugly woman" in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) "She tells stories to make herself look better."
(b) "She might be armed."
(c) "She's likely to really be a man."
(d) "She's got a grudge against the world."

5. What grade in school has Mary Alice just completed in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) Second grade.
(b) Fifth grade.
(c) Third grade.
(d) Fourth grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Grandma Dowdel send Joey to get the Cowgills brothers' parents in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

2. Where does Grandma Dowdel take Joey and Mary Alice to go fishing in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

3. What does Grandma Dowdel tell the milk delivery boy she did with the milk that had a mouse in it, in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

4. What is the destination city of the train that Joey and Mary Alice take to visit Grandma Dowdel?

5. Who stops to use Grandma Dowdel's privy before heading home in the end of "The Mouse in the Milk"?

(see the answer key)

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