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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) O. B. Dickerson.
(b) Ernie Cowgill.
(c) Effie Wilcox.
(d) Aunt Puss Chapman.

2. What does Grandma Dowdel do when a snake falls into the boat in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) She shoots it.
(b) She faints.
(c) She snaps its neck and throws it overboard.
(d) She hits it with the paddle until it dies.

3. Who is Grandma Dowdel's cousin that she mentions to the dairy delivery boy in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) Effie Wilcox.
(b) Leota Shrewsbury.
(c) Marie Jacobson.
(d) Ella Richmond.

4. 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 a priest before he left the church and died."
(c) "He was a bank robber and a horse thief."
(d) "He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke."

5. Where does Grandma Dowdel send Joey to get the Cowgills brothers' parents in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
(a) To the Holy Rollers Church.
(b) To the lumber mill.
(c) To the dairy.
(d) To the White Horse Tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" set?

2. Why does Grandma Dowdel tell the milk delivery boy she won't need cream or milk delivered tomorrow in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

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

4. What does Grandma Dowdel lend to Mr. Cowgill to whip his sons in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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