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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Grandma and Mary Alice do at the cobhouse?
(a) Place Bootsie on the wire.
(b) Hide and wait.
(c) Taunt the boys.
(d) Go back inside the house.

2. A forlorn Mary Alice informs Grandma of ______________.
(a) Mildred's demand.
(b) Mildred's following her.
(c) Her interest in being Mildred's friend.
(d) Mildred's desire to be her friend.

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

4. What has caused Mrs. Abernathy's son's illness?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Toxic nerve gas used in World War I.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

6. Mildred intends to do what by following Mary Alice?
(a) Waste time.
(b) Learn more about Mary Alice.
(c) Ask her to be her friend.
(d) Collect the dollar from Grandma.

7. What does Grandma do with the sliced food?
(a) Make pumpkin pies for the school Halloween party.
(b) She makes corn pudding for the school Halloween party.
(c) She makes apple pies for the school Halloween party.
(d) She makes almond cookies for the school Halloween party.

8. Some ___________ come to the cobhouse and fall over the wire that Grandma strung.
(a) Hallowers.
(b) Ghosties.
(c) Halloweenies.
(d) Halloweeners.

9. After school, how does Mildred follow Mary Alice?
(a) In a car.
(b) On a motorcycle.
(c) On a horse.
(d) On a bike.

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

11. What is wrong with Mrs. Abernathy's grown son?
(a) He is on crutches.
(b) He is unable to talk.
(c) He is lying in his bed, moaning.
(d) He is in a wheelchair, blinded, and mentally ill.

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

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

14. One night, Mary Alice is shocked to discover what about Bootsie?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He had a rusty tin can tied around his tail.
(c) He is missing.
(d) He is pregnant.

15. What does Grandma think of Bootsie the cat?
(a) She likes him a lot.
(b) She does not like him.
(c) She does not think about him often.
(d) She does not care for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary Alice is enrolled as a __________.

2. It is revealed that a major reason for having the shoot at the Abernathy farm is do what?

3. Who is the son of the principal?

4. While Grandma is widely known as an excellent markswoman, she will not be competing. Instead, what does she do?

5. The narrator tells the reader that her father lost his job and her brother Joey has joined __________.

(see the answer keys)

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