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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of the Grogans new neighbor?
(a) Digger.
(b) Dodger.
(c) Trapper.
(d) Mountain Dan.
2. What did the Grogans really want for their third child?
(a) That it be male.
(b) That it be born soon after the second child.
(c) That it be female.
(d) That it be born five years or more after the second child.
3. How did Marley die?
(a) He died naturally at home, in John's arms.
(b) He died in the car on the way to the vet's.
(c) The vet put him to sleep.
(d) He collapsed in the vet's waiting room.
4. When Jenny had to stay in the hospital for twelve days, what was the atmosphere like at home?
(a) John couldn't cope and called his sister to help.
(b) The rules were relaxed.
(c) Quiet - John had taken Patrick and Marley to his parents' home.
(d) John handled everything well and Marley behaved perfectly.
5. In chapter 24, John told the reader how Marley had aged. How old was Marley at this point?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.
6. What is one difference between the English Lab and the American Lab?
(a) English Labs are never black.
(b) The English Lab is smaller.
(c) American Labs are not considered a real breed.
(d) The American Lab is smaller.
7. John phoned Jenny in Boston about Marley's digestive system condition and what did they decide to do about it?
(a) Wait until Jenny and the kids returned home to decide.
(b) Take him another vet for a second opinion.
(c) Let him die if that was what was inevitable.
(d) Get him into surgery as soon as possible.
8. What did the Grogans decide to do during their first spring in the north?
(a) Get some chickens.
(b) Get some sheep.
(c) Get some goats.
(d) Get some cows.
9. Why were the Grogan kids disappointed with their first Christmas in their new northern home?
(a) They got very few presents.
(b) There was no snow.
(c) It was twenty below zero.
(d) They missed sunny Florida.
10. What did Marley destroy that John had bought to celebrate the second baby's birth?
(a) A rocking chair.
(b) A flowering shrub.
(c) A box of cigars.
(d) A picture frame for the new baby's photo.
11. What habit had Marley developed as he got older?
(a) Pulling the fur on his belly out.
(b) Licking his feet over and over.
(c) Going to the bathroom inside the house.
(d) Being fussy about where he went to the bathroom.
12. What did the Grogans' neighbor warn them not to do with their farm animals?
(a) Let them near Marley.
(b) Name them.
(c) Let them roam loose.
(d) Sell them to local people.
13. When they decided to move, what did John and Jenny realize they would not miss about Florida?
(a) The school system.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) The heat and humidity.
14. Why didn't Marley fit into the Boca Raton scene?
(a) The city had a bylaw about large dogs.
(b) There was no room for him to exercise.
(c) It was populated by tiny pampered dogs and pampered people.
(d) Labs were not "cool" dogs in Boca Raton.
15. What was Marley's response to the farm animals?
(a) He chased them constantly.
(b) He thought of them as his own pets.
(c) He didn't care much one way or the other.
(d) He was afraid of them.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did John find out about Dog Beach?
2. John built a shelter for the farm animals. Why did he include a door that could be closed at night?
3. Why did the Grogans take Marley to his last visit to the vet?
4. What did Jenny tell John to do about Marley after he ripped up the couch cushion?
5. Marley changed after moving north, but what did he never lose interest in?
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