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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month is it every year when Joey and Mary Alice visit Grandma Dowdel?
(a) July.
(b) August.
(c) June.
(d) April.

2. What does Joey do when a snake falls into the boat in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) He kills it with a rock.
(b) He kills it with a stick.
(c) He faints.
(d) He jumps from the boat.

3. Who stops to use Grandma Dowdel's privy before heading home in the end of "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) Mrs. Weidenbach.
(b) Effie Wilcox.
(c) Ernie Cowgill.
(d) Mrs. Cowgill.

4. What grade does Grandma Dowdel say the milk delivery boy is in after he leaves in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) Third grade.
(b) Seventh grade.
(c) Ninth grade.
(d) Fourth grade.

5. 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 just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke."
(b) "He was a Civil War General and fought alongside Ulysses S. Grant."
(c) "He was a bank robber and a horse thief."
(d) "He was a priest before he left the church and died."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to stop Grandma Dowdel from giving away catfish in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

2. What grade in school has Mary Alice just completed in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

3. Why was Grandma Dowdel thrown out of school when she was young?

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

5. What organization does Joey say his father is a member of in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

(see the answer key)

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