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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ned spending a great deal of time after he recovers?
(a) His bedroom.
(b) The Kimball home.
(c) The Makepeace mansion.
(d) Mr. Scully's house.

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

3. Why does Mrs. Scallop cry?
(a) Her daughter is ill.
(b) Ned snaps at her.
(c) She is not feeling well.
(d) Her mother died a year ago that day.

4. Where does Ned go to visit?
(a) An art museum with his class.
(b) Mr. Scully in the nursing home.
(c) The State capitol with his class.
(d) To Evelyn's grandmother's house with Evelyn.

5. What happens when Ned and his papa return home after a visit to Mr. Scully?
(a) Mama is very ill.
(b) Doris has moved into Mr. Scully's house.
(c) Mr. Scully's sister has moved into Mr. Scully's house.
(d) The one-eyed cat is dead on their driveway.

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

7. When does a heavy snow fall in Chapter V?
(a) On Christmas day.
(b) It does not snow, which is unusual.
(c) On the first of December.
(d) On Thanksgiving day.

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

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

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

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

12. Where is Billy Gaskell's family moving?
(a) New York.
(b) Freeport.
(c) Albany.
(d) Pittsburgh.

13. What does Ned avoid approaching?
(a) One of the town bullies.
(b) The grave where his grandfather is buried.
(c) A broken water main.
(d) The cat on the icebox.

14. How does Ned help Janet?
(a) He cleans the chalkboards everyday.
(b) He tells her about the one-eyed cat.
(c) He sweeps out the basement.
(d) He picks up her books she dropped.

15. What does Ned figure his father will begin doing?
(a) Taking over Sunday services for another preacher who just died.
(b) Teaching Ned how to drive the tractor.
(c) Driving his mother to the doctor in the city.
(d) Picking up Mr. Scully's groceries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned bring down from Mr. Scully's attic?

2. About what does Ned ask Mrs. Kinball?

3. Where does Ned do after-school chores?

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

5. What does Evelyn get as a result of her father earning more money?

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