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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) California.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) New Mexico.

2. In the Prologue of the book, the narrator describes Grandma Dowdel as being as "tough as" what?
(a) "An ox."
(b) "A feisty mule."
(c) "An old cat."
(d) "An old boor."

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

4. How much money does Grandma Dowdel demand the banker give to each of her grandchildren in "Things with Wings"?
(a) $1.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) $2.
(d) 25 cents.

5. How much money does Otis say Grandma Dowdel has held in the bank in "Things with Wings"?
(a) $17.
(b) $5.
(c) $2.
(d) $12.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Dillinger killed?

2. What baseball team's hat does Joey wear in "The Day of Judgment"?

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

4. How old is Mary Alice during her trip to Grandma Dowdel's in "The Day of Judgment"?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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