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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What attracts Charlie to Eliza Wishart?
(a) Her wealth.
(b) Her health.
(c) Her behavior.
(d) Her beauty.

2. What is the title of Jeffrey and Charlie's Great Australian novel?
(a) Jasper Jones: The True Cricket Champion.
(b) Truth McJustice and the Holy Grail.
(c) Mark Twain, Harper Lee, and Australia.
(d) Pope on a Rope: Truth Will Set You Free.

3. When Charlie arrives at Jeffrey's house in Chapter Two, what is Jeffrey doing?
(a) Listening to pop songs.
(b) Listening to his mother sing.
(c) Listening to a Superman program.
(d) Listening to a cricket match.

4. What sends Charlie racing from his room when he awakens in Chapter Three?
(a) His fear of a paper wasp.
(b) His father's calls to breakfast.
(c) His mother's anger.
(d) A date with Eliza.

5. What book is Eliza reading in Chapter Three?
(a) Pudd'nhead Wilson.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(c) The Naked and the Dead.
(d) Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?

2. What war is taking place during this novel?

3. When Charlie awakens in Chapter Two, what does he expect to find happening in his neighborhood?

4. How does the cricket coach handle the bullying toward Jeffrey?

5. For what do the larger boys NOT pick on Jeffrey?

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