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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Grandma Dowdel refuse to take her pie and register it at the Domestic Services tent as soon as she arrives at the fair in "The Day of Judgment"?
(a) Because the livestock draws flies.
(b) Because she distrusts the other competitors.
(c) Because the pie will melt.
(d) Because it is too cold in the tent.

2. Whose framed picture hangs on the wall of the Coffee Pot Cafe in "The Phantom Brakeman"?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt's.
(b) Babe Ruth's.
(c) John Wayne's.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt's.

3. Who does Grandma Dowdel give her extra catfish to in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) Hobos and drifters.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) The church committee.
(d) The Chamber of Commerce.

4. What is the reeking smell coming from Grandma Dowdel's cobhouse in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) A dead dog.
(b) A dead man.
(c) Rotten meat.
(d) Cheese.

5. Who is the movie star that Joey describes as "sweeping the country" in "The Phantom Brakeman"?
(a) Katharine Hepburn.
(b) Shirley Temple.
(c) Betty Grable.
(d) Carolyn Keene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Grandma Dowdel's response to the performance by Mrs. Weidenbach's nephew at the talent show in "Centennial Summer"?

2. Who is the American Western film actor that Joey cites when he hears the explosion outside Grandma's house in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

3. How much money does Otis say Grandma Dowdel has held in the bank in "Things with Wings"?

4. The narrator says that on the day of the Centennial Celebration, "People came in farm wagons and Fords from as far away as" where, in "Centennial Summer"?

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

(see the answer key)

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