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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every year the _____________________ hosts a sharpshooting contest at the Abernathy farm.
(a) Military Post.
(b) American Legion.
(c) National Rifle Association.
(d) Boy Scouts.

2. What is humorous about the answer to number 59?
(a) The pie is made from her own pumpkins.
(b) The cookies are made from her own almonds.
(c) The pie is made from her own apples.
(d) The pudding is made from her own corn.

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

4. Halloween is a _________ occasion in Grandma's town.
(a) Huge.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) Small.
(d) Minor.

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

6. What does Grandma think of this holiday?
(a) She does not think about this holiday.
(b) It is her favorite.
(c) She hates it.
(d) It is her least favorite.

7. They scramble out of there, leaving behind what?
(a) A flashlight and beer.
(b) A knife and a handsaw.
(c) Candy and cookies.
(d) A cut up can.

8. Wordlessly, Grandma stews up some _______ on the stove.
(a) Sauce.
(b) Soup.
(c) Glue.
(d) Tar.

9. Mad, Grandma affixes a spare tire to the front of the farmer's tractor in the barn, and does what?
(a) Steals the tractor.
(b) Runs the tractor into the river.
(c) Rams the tractor into the tree.
(d) Rams the tractor into the farmer's house.

10. While Mildred is eating, Grandma walks outside on the pretense that she is doing what?
(a) Visiting a neighbor.
(b) Going for a walk.
(c) Tying up Mildred's horse for her.
(d) Fetching jam from the cellar.

11. Who is the son of the principal?
(a) Augie Fluke.
(b) Darrel Smiley.
(c) Matthew Thomas.
(d) Carl Aberdeen.

12. Where does Grandma make Bootsie live?
(a) In the yard.
(b) In her room.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the cobhouse out back.

13. What is wrong with the principal's son?
(a) He is wearing glasses.
(b) He has a bald, irritated head and a bandaged nose.
(c) He is on crutches.
(d) He is coughing.

14. What is burgoo stew?
(a) A deer stew.
(b) A stew made from burgoo.
(c) A stew made from scraps of whatever vegetables and trimmings happen to be available.
(d) A beef stew.

15. How does Grandma react to Mary Alice's arrival?
(a) She offers no hug or greeting and moans about having to take in her granddaughter.
(b) She gives her a huge hug.
(c) She completely ignores her.
(d) She begins to cry and tells her how much she has missed her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Grandma and Mary Alice take a load of the treats to the party, and who serves them?

2. Grandma, acting quite polite, does what?

3. Finally home, Grandma cuts the food open with what?

4. What do Grandma and Mary Alice do at the cobhouse?

5. Why is it important that the school is many miles from Mildred's house?

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