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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 leave out on the porch at Mr. Scully's?
(a) A rat trap.
(b) Bird seed.
(c) Bread and milk.
(d) Nothing.

2. How are Mama's treatments working?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Well.
(c) Not too well.
(d) It's too early to tell.

3. What is on Ned's mind constantly?
(a) A bully at school who keeps harassing Ned.
(b) His mother's illness.
(c) His father's desire for him to become a minister.
(d) His firing the air rifle.

4. About what does Ned worry when he gets back to his room with his presents?
(a) If his father will get back in time for his birthday dinner.
(b) If his mother got too tired during the birthday celebration.
(c) If he was seen the night before out with the rifle.
(d) If his brother will have to leave again for the Army.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Ned ask Mrs. Kinball?

2. What does Mrs. Scallop sometimes lapse into?

3. How many housekeepers has the Wallis family had, including the present one?

4. What does Ned decide about Charleston?

5. After Ned apologizes and goes to his room, about what does he worry?

(see the answer key)

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