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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say it seems like the tree house is doing at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Crying.
(b) Dissolving.
(c) Dying.
(d) Melting.

2. Where are Dolly and the Judge when the narrator returns from his outing with Riley in Chapter 4?
(a) In the tree house.
(b) In the jail.
(c) High in the tree.
(d) In the town.

3. What does Riley whip his sisters with?
(a) A belt.
(b) A switch.
(c) A tennis shoe.
(d) A paddle.

4. Who uses the house boat as a hideout?
(a) Collin.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) Riley.
(d) The Judge.

5. Who does the narrator find in the tree house when he returns after Catherine is taken away?
(a) No one.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) Riley.
(d) The Judge.

6. What do Maude and Elizabeth want Collin to come as to their Halloween party?
(a) A monster.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A werewolf.
(d) A mummy.

7. What is the name of the bakery from which Riley brings rolls to the tree house?
(a) Lucky O.
(b) Talbo Corner.
(c) Katz.
(d) Katydid.

8. Who says, "I'm feeling old, I want my sister"?
(a) Verena.
(b) The Judge.
(c) Collin.
(d) Dolly.

9. Where does Dolly take Verena in Chapter 6?
(a) Into their house.
(b) Into the hospital.
(c) Down to the river.
(d) Into the tree.

10. What is the one thing that Catherine asks to have brought to her in the jail?
(a) Her blanket.
(b) Her embroidery.
(c) Her goldfish.
(d) Her cat.

11. Who strips off Riley's shirt in Chapter 6?
(a) Collin.
(b) Dolly.
(c) The Judge.
(d) Sister Ida.

12. How does the narrator catch the fish?
(a) Bare-handed.
(b) With a knife.
(c) With a fishing pole.
(d) With a reed.

13. What is scattered about the house boat?
(a) Fishing magazines.
(b) Adventure magazines.
(c) Women's magazines.
(d) Hunting magazines.

14. What does Little Homer lower out of the tree in Chapter 6?
(a) A bottle rocket.
(b) A knife.
(c) A noose.
(d) A gun.

15. What kind of fish do the narrator and Riley catch?
(a) Crawfish.
(b) Catfish.
(c) Trout.
(d) Mackerel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character says, "At home, in the kitchen, there is a geranium that blooms over and over. Some plants, though, they bloom just once, if at all, and nothing more happens to them. They live, but they've had their life"?

2. What does the man whom Maudie Murphy leaves with do for a living?

3. Who fires the gun in Chapter 6?

4. What object is used for passing around money by the traveling evangelists?

5. What does Judge do while the boys are away in the town?

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