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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. What does Ned think about as he leaves the nursing home?
(a) The mementos Mr. Scully threw out.
(b) The times Mr. Scully would laugh until he had tears in his eyes.
(c) Shooting the cat.
(d) The pain of aging.

2. What does Mrs. Scallop sometimes lapse into?
(a) Periods of bossiness.
(b) Periods of joking with Ned.
(c) Periods of sullen silence.
(d) Periods of giddy laughter.

3. Of what is Ned afraid if his dad learns of the rifle incident?
(a) That his dad will tell his mother.
(b) That his dad will never give him the rifle.
(c) That his dad will beat him.
(d) That his father will be disappointed in him.

4. What does Nurse Clay tell Ned?
(a) That Mr. Scully had been moved to live with his daughter.
(b) That Mr. Scully is in a coma.
(c) That Mr. Scully is in the hospital in Waterville.
(d) That Mr. Scully died two days earlier.

5. What does Ned do on the veranda at the place he visits?
(a) Paints.
(b) Writes.
(c) Plays with his toy soldiers.
(d) Thinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is missing from the yard at Mr. Scully's house?

2. What does James Wallis tell his son to refrain from when at the Brewster's home?

3. What does Ned have trouble doing that his father told him to do?

4. From where does an ambulance have to come?

5. Who does Ned encounter one day at Mr. Scully's house?

(see the answer key)

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