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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roy pretend to be suffering from when he shouts in his father's ear?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Deliruim.

2. Who does Grandfather think the police are?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Rebels.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Deserters.

3. What is the only thing Thurber is wearing when the police arrive?
(a) His underwear.
(b) A sarong.
(c) A towel.
(d) A dressing gown.

4. Why can't Mother use the phone?
(a) Someone has cut the line.
(b) It is downstairs.
(c) They forgot to pay the phone bill.
(d) They need change.

5. What is the name of Thurber's younger brother?
(a) David.
(b) Roy.
(c) Peter.
(d) Frederick.

6. What word causes panic among the 2,000 people?
(a) Fire.
(b) Dam.
(c) Water.
(d) Hell.

7. Which member of the family dislikes the REO?
(a) The father.
(b) Herman.
(c) Rex.
(d) The mother.

8. What does Thurber do in this chapter when he is unable to sleep?
(a) List Italian baseball players.
(b) Count sleep.
(c) List Italian gangsters.
(d) List New Jersey towns.

9. What does Grandfather say he recommended over the REO?
(a) A Pope-Toledo.
(b) A Dinwood Form.
(c) A Polo.
(d) A Cornish Yellow.

10. Why do the family have to push start the car?
(a) It can't make it up hills.
(b) It is beyond cranking.
(c) It has no engine.
(d) It runs out of petrol.

11. What do the Columbus believe has broken?
(a) The well.
(b) The buses.
(c) The dam.
(d) The sewage system.

12. What destroys the REO?
(a) A lion.
(b) A machine gun.
(c) A fork of lightning.
(d) Another car.

13. What do people name the day everyone fled the town?
(a) Fire, Dam and Help.
(b) Day of the Phantom Dam.
(c) Silly Beggars.
(d) Afternoon of the Great Run.

14. What do Turber's family believe it is dangerous to use during storms?
(a) Computers.
(b) Televisions.
(c) Cars.
(d) Telephones.

15. Who does grandfather think is invading Columbus?
(a) The British.
(b) The Republicans.
(c) The Native Americans.
(d) The Rebels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fell on Thurber's father?

2. What does someone yell in the theater?

3. What do the family use to knock the grandfather unconscious?

4. Who wrote the letter Thurber quotes from in this section?

5. Who does Mother want to call when she hears the noise?

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