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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the town banker where Grandma Dowdel lives?
(a) Jerry Anderson.
(b) L. J. Weidenbach.
(c) Wilson Montgomery.
(d) A. G. Askew.

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

3. What has Mrs. Weidenbach won the blue ribbon for at the county fair every year?
(a) Gooseberry pie.
(b) Bread-and-butter pickles.
(c) Strawberry and cream pie.
(d) Apple cobbler.

4. 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) Leota Shrewsbury.
(c) Mrs. Cowgill.
(d) Effie Wilcox.

5. In what year is "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" set?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the new sign on the train platform say when Joey and Mary Alice get off at Grandma's in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?

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

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

4. Who is the biplane pilot at the county fair in "The Day of Judgment"?

5. Who is the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Grandma Dowdel's town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrative style in A Long Way from Chicago. Who relates the stories?

2. What items do Mary Alice and Joey Dowdel bring with them on their trip to Grandma's in "The Mouse in the Milk"? Why?

3. How does the author establish an atmosphere of the Chicago gangster scene in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?

4. How does Grandma Dowdel describe "the truth" of Shotgun Cheatham and how he got his name?

5. How does Grandma Dowdel trap the Cowgill brothers in "The Mouse in the Milk"? What does she tell Joey to do once she has them trapped?

6. How old are Joey and Mary Alice when they first visit Grandma Dowdel? How do they travel to see her?

7. How does the narrator describe the process of preparing Grandma's pie in "The Day of Judgment"?

8. What does Joey ask Grandma Dowdel in the end of "The Day of Judgment"? What is her reply?

9. How does Grandma Dowdel go about baiting the Cowgill boys to her home in "The Mouse in the Milk"?

10. What are Joey's perceptions of the biplane and pilot in "The Day of Judgment"?

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