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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To whose class is Mary Alice taken?
(a) Miss Bate's.
(b) Miss Binghamton's.
(c) Miss Bonnie's.
(d) Miss Butler's.

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

5. At _____________ o' clock, everyone stops to observe a minute of silence for Armistice Day.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Eleven.

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

7. Why does Grandma believe Mary Alice will not get beat up?
(a) Mildred will be too embarrassed to go to school the next day.
(b) Without a horse or shoes, Mildred will not attend school.
(c) Mildred is too afraid of Grandma.
(d) Mildred has been put in her place.

8. Out of whom does Grandma squeeze a whole silver dollar?
(a) Mary Alice.
(b) Mrs. Abernathy.
(c) Mr. Weidenbach.
(d) August Fluke.

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

10. What is the year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1933.

11. 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 pudding is made from her own corn.
(d) The pie is made from her own apples.

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

13. Finally home, Grandma cuts the food open with what?
(a) A carving knife.
(b) An electric saw.
(c) A butter knife.
(d) The pranksters' handsaw.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After school, how does Mildred follow Mary Alice?

2. Why does Grandma do this with the tractor?

3. With whom does Mary Alice share a room?

4. The horse likely did what?

5. Mary Alice has a Halloween party at school, and Grandma decides to do what?

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