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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Scallop cry?
(a) Her daughter is ill.
(b) Ned snaps at her.
(c) Her mother died a year ago that day.
(d) She is not feeling well.

2. What food did the cat eat from Mr. Scully?
(a) A piece of fish.
(b) None.
(c) Bacon bits.
(d) A piece of chicken.

3. Who is going to help look after Ned's mother?
(a) A nurse the doctor knows.
(b) No one.
(c) Mrs. Kimball.
(d) A nurse from the church.

4. Where does he go on his walk?
(a) The front pasture.
(b) The woods where he shot the air rifle.
(c) The garden.
(d) The Makepeace mansion.

5. What kind of potatoes does Mrs. Brewster serve?
(a) Lumpy mashed.
(b) French fried.
(c) The best in the town.
(d) Unrecognizable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned decide about Charleston?

2. How do Mama and Papa feel about what she tells Ned?

3. What is Powerful Katinka?

4. Of what is Ned afraid if his dad learns of the rifle incident?

5. What does Mrs. Kimball do?

(see the answer key)

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