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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ned admit to Mr. Scully on another trip to see the man?
(a) That Ned is afraid of death.
(b) That Ned is afraid of his mother dying.
(c) That Ned does not ever want to shoot the rifle again.
(d) That Ned shot the cat and put out its eye.

2. What does Papa notice when he and Ned are trimming the Christmas tree?
(a) Ned has outgrown is new pants.
(b) Ned is feverish.
(c) Ned's mother is happy.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Mrs. Kimball say about Mr. Scully?
(a) He is a God-fearing man.
(b) He is a difficult, embattled old man.
(c) He probably suffered a stroke.
(d) He is stubborn.

4. What does Ned notice about Evelyn's attitude?
(a) It has not changed.
(b) It is more grown up.
(c) It is coy.
(d) It is snotty.

5. What does Ned think about Mr. Scully when he goes to see him one day?
(a) Mr. Scully seems to be somewhere else.
(b) Mr. Scully seems much stronger.
(c) Mr. Scully is very fragile.
(d) Mr. Scully talks more than usual.

6. How does Mrs. Scallop feel about her new job?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Disgruntled.

7. Who does Ned encounter one day at Mr. Scully's house?
(a) A bear.
(b) Doris.
(c) No one.
(d) Mrs. Kimball.

8. Why doesn't Ned visit his mother one day?
(a) He is too busy working at the church.
(b) She is too ill.
(c) He is ill.
(d) She has gone to the city for a new treatment.

9. What does Mr. Scully promise to continue doing?
(a) Taking his medicine.
(b) Keep Ned doing chores and paying him.
(c) Feed the cat.
(d) Write his daughter.

10. Where does Ned find the one-eyed cat?
(a) In the shed.
(b) Under an old tractor.
(c) He can't find it.
(d) Under the front porch.

11. What news does Ned receive that lightens his mood?
(a) Mr. Scully's promise to continue to feed the one-eyed cat.
(b) Mrs. Scallop is moving to California.
(c) He is expected to play basketball this year.
(d) His mother is walking outside.

12. What does Mama tell Ned about the same house?
(a) It is just abandoned.
(b) It's too dangerous for him to wander inside.
(c) It has a lot of potential.
(d) Nothing.

13. What do Ned and Billy discuss?
(a) Learning to speed skate.
(b) Going to a school dance.
(c) The possibility of playing hockey with the bigger boys.
(d) Making the baseball team in the Spring.

14. What does Mama tell Ned about her arthritis?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is almost gone.
(c) There is a new treatment for it.
(d) It is much worse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food did the cat eat from Mr. Scully?

2. What does Ned learn from Doris?

3. What topic does Ned's mother ask Ned about which he does not answer?

4. What type of arthritis does Mama have?

5. When does a heavy snow fall in Chapter V?

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