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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Joey and Mary Alice's father give them apiece before they go to Grandma Dowdel's?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) $1.
(c) 75 cents.
(d) 25 cents.

2. What nickname had the Thompson submachine gun gained after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, according to the narrator in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) "Brooklyn bookkeeper."
(b) "Chicago typewriter."
(c) "Wind whistler."
(d) "St. Louis gunslinger."

3. Who always enters decorative butter pats in the county fair competition, according to Mrs. Weidenbach in "The Day of Judgment"?
(a) Aunt Puss Chapman.
(b) Effie Wilcox.
(c) Mrs. Cowgill.
(d) Leota Shrewsbury.

4. 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) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) Benjamin Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. 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 it is too cold in the tent.
(c) Because the pie will melt.
(d) Because she distrusts the other competitors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the strict lady in charge at the rummage sale in "Things with Wings"?

2. In what year is "The Phantom Brakeman" set?

3. Who is the author of the book The Hidden Staircase that Mary Alice reads in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

4. In what year is "The Mouse in the Milk" set?

5. At what time are Vandalia and Junior expected to flee aboard the Wabash Cannonball train on its brief stop in Grandma Dowdel's town in "The Phantom Brakeman"?

(see the answer key)

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