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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?
(a) Phantoms.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Presents.
(d) His grandparents.

2. In Chapter 12, as G. is talking to Pa, the reader learns that the village train has stopped running. Why?
(a) The tracks are sold for scrap iron for the war.
(b) The tracks are destroyed by the Germans.
(c) No one takes the train anymore.
(d) The landlord buys it and destroys it.

3. What does G. find on the beach that he decides to hide?
(a) A pebble.
(b) A dead crab.
(c) Money.
(d) A beautiful shell.

4. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?
(a) He won't help her.
(b) He is standing there, naked, for all to see.
(c) He made the fence come down.
(d) He laughs at the fence coming down.

5. Why does G.'s mother give him a lashing when he stops at the corner to say hello to Bob?
(a) Bob does not want him to say hello.
(b) The corner is where delinquents hang out.
(c) He will get mud on his shoes.
(d) He does not stay long enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way do Bambini and Bots become enemies?

2. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?

3. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?

4. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?

5. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?

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