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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Away in a Manger.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has broken the narrator and her mother?
(a) The narrator's college tuition.
(b) Their rent.
(c) Their utility bills.
(d) The narrator's train ticket.

2. What frightens Mary Alice in her room?
(a) The dark.
(b) The shadows on the wall.
(c) Bootsie.
(d) Things scuttling behind the walls and bumps coming from the attic.

3. Mary Alice has to share a desk with whom?
(a) Carleen.
(b) Mildred.
(c) Augie.
(d) Ina Rae.

4. Grandma makes sure to do what with this boy's desert?
(a) Cut it with his own knife.
(b) Make it a large piece.
(c) Put dirt on it.
(d) Add extra whipped topping.

5. How old is the narrator?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. This farmer told Grandma she could have any ___________ that fell from his tree, but hardly any are on the ground.

2. Grandma also has a vial of ________ to attract the animals.

3. Where does Grandma make Bootsie live?

4. At _____________ o' clock, everyone stops to observe a minute of silence for Armistice Day.

5. Instead, what does Grandma do?

(see the answer key)

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