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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What still worries Ned after he returns home from Mr. Scully's house?
(a) Doris not seeing her father more often.
(b) His mother's new treatment.
(c) His father's bad back.
(d) The one-eyed cat.

2. What does Ned tell his mother about Christmas vacation?
(a) He does not want to go with his uncle.
(b) He is really excited about the fox island.
(c) He wants her to go, too.
(d) He is really excited about the pony island.

3. Where is Hilary going to visit?
(a) Oahu.
(b) Molokai.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Cancun.

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

5. What does Ned realize about Mr. Scully and Ned's confession?
(a) Mr. Scully thinks Ned's mother is wonderful.
(b) Mr. Scully is the only person who knows what Ned did.
(c) Mr. Scully might also be afraid of dying.
(d) Mr. Scully believes the rifle is not Ned's problem.

6. Who is Billy Gaskell?
(a) A boy who calls Ned a mean name.
(b) Ned's best friend.
(c) Ned's second cousin.
(d) Janet's son.

7. What does Evelyn get as a result of her father earning more money?
(a) A new hat.
(b) Drawing materials.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Books.

8. After Ned apologizes and goes to his room, about what does he worry?
(a) The cat and his mom.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mrs. Scallop.
(d) The upcoming vacation.

9. What does Mama say to Ned about Mrs. Scallop?
(a) Ned should be nicer to her.
(b) Papa found her a job in a nursing home.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is going to start working only parttime.

10. What is now stacked at the back door of Mr. Scully's house?
(a) Planter pots.
(b) Newspapers from inside the house.
(c) The lumber from taking the outhouse apart.
(d) Canned goods.

11. What is missing from the yard at Mr. Scully's house?
(a) Several rose bushes.
(b) The plow.
(c) The trellis.
(d) Mr. Scully's car.

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

13. About what does Ned ask Mrs. Kinball?
(a) The history of the Makepeace mansion.
(b) If her daughter Evelyn is really going to be in the movies.
(c) The reason she became a nurse.
(d) Why Mrs. Scallop cried all the time.

14. How does Hilary intend to get to his next destination?
(a) Fly.
(b) He is not sure.
(c) A junk.
(d) A steamer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Mama's treatments working?

2. What does the Wallis family receive in the mail?

3. Where is Billy Gaskell's family moving?

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

5. Where does Hilary suggest taking a ferry?

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