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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Scully think about the one-eyed cat?
(a) It needs to live in the shed in the winter.
(b) It is not feral.
(c) It is sick.
(d) It is pregnant.

2. What topic does Ned's mother ask Ned about which he does not answer?
(a) About his grades.
(b) About his fight with Mrs. Scallop.
(c) About the one-eyed cat.
(d) About the vacation with Hilary.

3. What is different about the letter Ned receives from his uncle?
(a) It is addressed directly to him.
(b) It is typed.
(c) It is a postcard inside an envelope.
(d) It is postmarked in Italy.

4. What does Ned wish about his upcoming Christmas vacation?
(a) That they could go to Florida.
(b) That he could stay home.
(c) That his older brother could also go with them.
(d) That his parents were going.

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

6. What does Ned find as he sits at his secret place and looks out at the countryside?
(a) Two old journals.
(b) An opening in the brush.
(c) A glint of metal.
(d) Comfort.

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

8. What does Ned notice leading up to the shed?
(a) Mr. Scully's footprints in the snow.
(b) Mountain lion prints.
(c) Bear prints.
(d) Mr. Scully's footprints in the mud.

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

10. Where does Evelyn Kimball's father work?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A junkyard.
(c) A garage.
(d) A mine.

11. Who arrives where Ned is sitting?
(a) Billy.
(b) His papa.
(c) Evelyn.
(d) His mama.

12. Where does Ned go after he finds Mr. Scully?
(a) To the police station.
(b) To the church.
(c) Home.
(d) To the Kimball house.

13. What does the Wallis family receive in the mail?
(a) A check from Papa's great aunt who dies.
(b) A check from Mama's great aunt who dies.
(c) Another exciting letter from Hilary.
(d) A refund from the government.

14. What is at the place Hilary intends to visit?
(a) Native flowers Hilary wants to study.
(b) A monastery.
(c) Some pyramid ruins.
(d) A leper colony.

15. What type of arthritis does Mama have?
(a) Rheumatoid.
(b) Lupus arthritis.
(c) Osteoarthritis.
(d) Psoriatic arthritis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned's mother remind Ned to do?

2. What What does Mr. Scully instruct Ned to throw out?

3. What worries Ned about the one-eyed cat?

4. What does Ned learn about Mr. Scully?

5. What does Ned think about Mr. Scully when he goes to see him one day?

(see the answer keys)

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