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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Father threaten to get?
(a) Dave.
(b) Buck.
(c) George.
(d) Ricky.

2. Who drives a Red Devil?
(a) Get Ready Man.
(b) Finish Fish Man.
(c) Ladybird Larry.
(d) Lazy Boy.

3. What does Roy shout in his father's ear?
(a) Left, right, left, right. Halt.
(b) What is that coming through the door.
(c) Buck, your time has come.
(d) The aliens are coming.

4. Who does Thurber wake up to tell about the burglar?
(a) Father.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Rex.
(d) Herman.

5. Who does Thurber wake up to ask about New Jersey towns?
(a) Roy.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Herman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Thurber think is downstairs?

2. Why can't Mother use the phone?

3. What kind of dog is Rex?

4. What destroys the REO?

5. Where in the house does Thurber hear someone walking around?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Father's relationship with his sons?

2. Who was General Meade?

3. How did people react to the claim the dam had burst?

4. How does Thurber's mother get overexcited in this chapter?

5. Why does the record player wake up Father?

6. How do the family have to start the old REO?

7. How did the REO meet its end?

8. What is Briggs's nervous condition?

9. How does Grandfather react when the police break into his room?

10. What does Thurber say happened to Zenas?

(see the answer keys)

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