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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the second creature refuse to start a fire when he is asked?
(a) He can't find any wood.
(b) His matches are wet.
(c) He doesn't know how to build a fire.
(d) Because the first creature called him fat.

2. After getting to the spring what does Fone say he should have asked the dragon?
(a) If he had seen Fone's cousins.
(b) What dragons eat.
(c) Why he is following him.
(d) Where Boneville is.

3. What is Fone told when he asks someone in chapter one how to get back to Boneville?
(a) No one has ever heard of it.
(b) You must go through Death Valley to reach Boneville.
(c) It is a month's worth of travel.
(d) Going to Boneville is illegal.

4. Why does Gran'a say Phoney and Fone are obviously pets?
(a) They are short.
(b) You can't milk them.
(c) They are fuzzy.
(d) They smell like chicken.

5. What does Thorn say the people in the village bet?
(a) Livestock.
(b) Goods and services.
(c) Lumps of gold and other jewels.
(d) Paper money.

6. What does Miz 'Possum say about Ted in Chapter two?
(a) That Ted is her hero.
(b) That she hasn't seen Ted all winter.
(c) That Ted always hibernates.
(d) That Ted is a busy bug.

7. What does Smiley find in Chapter one?
(a) A bag of food.
(b) A house.
(c) A necklace with an odd symbol on it.
(d) A map.

8. What does Thorn say Gran'ma Ben goes into town each spring to do?
(a) Make a large bet on the festivities.
(b) Show off her fighting chickens.
(c) Show off her best racing cows.
(d) See her boyfriend.

9. What chases the Bones in Chapter one before they get separated?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Birds.
(d) Snakes.

10. What does Thorn say she doesn't believe in?
(a) Rat creatures.
(b) Fate.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Bone.

11. Who stops the two creatures from eating Fone in Chapter one?
(a) Smiley.
(b) An older woman.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A beautiful young girl.

12. Who does Ted decide to take Phoney to?
(a) Thorn.
(b) Thorn's Gran'ma.
(c) His big brother.
(d) The rat creatures.

13. What does Fone ask the rat creatures in chapter two when they growl at him?
(a) What they had for lunch.
(b) If they are always this cranky.
(c) Why they follow him.
(d) If they would like some of his pie.

14. What does Phoney say to Ted when they meet?
(a) Do you have a brain?
(b) You look like a leaf.
(c) Take me to your leader.
(d) You can be my servant.

15. What does Phoney ask Fone about Thorn?
(a) Why she is putting up with Fone.
(b) If Fone and Thorn have a thing going on.
(c) If she likes shorter men.
(d) If she is single.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fone begin to do when the children play dead in his house?

2. What does Ted say when the creatures appear to talk to Fone?

3. What does Gran'ma say about Fone and Phoney staying?

4. What does Smiley say is the reason that the Mayor declared a holiday in Boneville for?

5. Why does Fone say that they had to bring Smiley with them when they ran from Boneville?

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