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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Minute in the Morning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Grandma do this with the tractor?
(a) She needs a tractor.
(b) She makes it rain pecans.
(c) She does not think the farmer needs a tractor.
(d) She wants the farmer to know how mad she is.

2. Grandma takes Mary Alice directly where?
(a) Work.
(b) Home.
(c) A restaurant for dinner.
(d) High school.

3. In a dank basement, they discover ______________, who is doubling as a janitor.
(a) The principal, August Fluke.
(b) An English teacher, Miss Butler.
(c) Another high school student, Augie Fluke.
(d) Mary Alice's brother, Joey.

4. What is the purpose of Armistice Day?
(a) It commemorates the day the U.S. took up arms against Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
(b) It commemorates the end of World War II.
(c) It commemorates the day the Civil War ended.
(d) It commemorates the end of World War I.

5. Why is it important that the school is many miles from Mildred's house?
(a) It is too far for Mildred to go to complain about Grandma's behavior.
(b) She will be late to school the next day.
(c) She will not be able to follow Mary Alice home from school the next day.
(d) It is too far for her to get to without a horse or shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To take her mind off her fears, what does Mary Alice do?

2. Grandma makes sure to do what with this boy's desert?

3. Usually it's a _________ for a cup of stew.

4. Some ___________ come to the cobhouse and fall over the wire that Grandma strung.

5. Mary Alice is enrolled as a __________.

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