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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. What does Mother insist on talking about the next morning?
(a) Something humorous.
(b) Buck.
(c) Something elevating.
(d) Rex.

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

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

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

5. What does Mother throw through the neighbor's window?
(a) A brick.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A plate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who try to calm the fleeing residents?

2. How long does it take for Columbus to get back to normal?

3. What does the grandfather steal from one of the policeman?

4. What do the Columbus believe has broken?

5. What word causes panic among the 2,000 people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Father dislike pushing the car?

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

3. How does Mother get the neighbor's attention?

4. What is Briggs's nervous condition?

5. What does Aunt write that she observed from the flood?

6. How could Grandfather caused the family to drown?

7. Describe how the family erupts into chaos in the first chapter.

8. How does Roy scare his father?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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