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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grandma Dowdel send Joey to get at the store in town after Mrs. Weidenbach leaves in "The Day of Judgment"?
(a) A bag of sugar.
(b) A bag of cherries.
(c) A bag of oats.
(d) A gallon of milk.

2. Who is the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Grandma Dowdel's town?
(a) L. J. Weidenbach.
(b) Earl T. Askew.
(c) Ernie Cowgill.
(d) O. B. Dickerson.

3. What city do Joey and Mary Alice live in growing up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Little Rock.
(d) St. Paul.

4. What railroad do Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel take when they go to visit their Grandmother?
(a) The Florida East Coast Railway.
(b) The Wisconsin Central Railroad.
(c) The Northern Pacific Railroad.
(d) The Wabash Railroad.

5. Who does Grandma Dowdel claim to have given Shotgun Cheatham his name when she's talking to the reporter in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) Robert E. Lee.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Benjamin Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other events are judged on the day of the cooking competition at the fair in "The Day of Judgment"?

2. 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"?

3. How old is Joey Dowdel during his trip to his Grandmother's in "The Day of Judgment"?

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"?

5. From what material was the Weidenbachs' home built?

(see the answer key)

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