A Year Down Yonder Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Richard Peck
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A Year Down Yonder Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Rams the tractor into the tree.
(c) Rams the tractor into the farmer's house.
(d) Steals the tractor.

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

5. Who is one of the last to be served?
(a) Carleen.
(b) Mary Alice.
(c) Augie Fluke.
(d) Grandma.

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

7. The narrator tells the reader that her father lost his job and her brother Joey has joined __________.
(a) The military.
(b) The Civilian Conservation Corps.
(c) A union.
(d) A gang.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How does Grandma know that the horse was not even Mildred's?
(a) Mildred's family is too poor to own any horses.
(b) The horse threw Mildred off his back.
(c) The horse belongs to the neighbors down the road.
(d) Mildred's father is a notorious horse thief.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mary Alice's favorite singer?

2. Grandma dodges Mary Alice's question of what?

3. She has them take off their shoes, and then she gives the girls buttermilk and __________.

4. Grandma says Mrs. Abernathy receives money from whom for her son, but it is not enough?

5. A forlorn Mary Alice informs Grandma of ______________.

(see the answer keys)

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