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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until the family recovers financially, the narrator will have to live with ________________ in an unnamed town.
(a) Aunt Suzie.
(b) Grandma Smith.
(c) Grandma Dowdel.
(d) Uncle Harold.

2. What is Augie Fluke intent on proving to Mary Alice?
(a) He is a good shot.
(b) He is smart.
(c) He is handsome.
(d) He can dance.

3. The next day, Grandma and Mary Alice drag a wagon to the home of farmer ___________.
(a) Old Man Nyquist.
(b) Old Lady Nyquist.
(c) Old Man Lynquist.
(d) Old Lady Lynquist.

4. Usually it's a _________ for a cup of stew.
(a) Dime.
(b) Dollar.
(c) Quarter.
(d) Nickel.

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

6. The horse likely did what?
(a) Stayed in the yard to eat grass.
(b) Ran away.
(c) Trotted back to its rightful owner.
(d) Ran back to Mildred's home.

7. Mary Alice has a Halloween party at school, and Grandma decides to do what?
(a) Bake pumpkin and pecan pies for it.
(b) Make her a costume.
(c) Buy her treats to share.
(d) GIve her apples for bobbing.

8. The pies turn the party from _______________.
(a) Large to small.
(b) Pathetic to fun.
(c) Games to food.
(d) Fun to pathetic.

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

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

11. The _____________ family are notoriously bad people.
(a) Butler.
(b) Fluke.
(c) Gage.
(d) Burdick.

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

13. Mary Alice is enrolled as a __________.
(a) Freshman.
(b) Junior.
(c) Senior.
(d) Sophomore.

14. This farmer told Grandma she could have any ___________ that fell from his tree, but hardly any are on the ground.
(a) Walnuts.
(b) Pecans.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Apples.

15. To take her mind off her fears, what does Mary Alice do?
(a) She talks to Grandma.
(b) She sings to herself.
(c) She prays.
(d) She plays her Philco radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Augie aims his gun at the fleeing rabbit?

2. At lunch, Grandma becomes the unofficial ______________ for the burgoo.

3. They scramble out of there, leaving behind what?

4. To whose class is Mary Alice taken?

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

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