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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What has gone from Mr. Scully's house?
(a) Mr. Scully's buggy.
(b) The leather portfolio.
(c) The "for sale" sign.
(d) The old coonskin cap.

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

5. What is lying on an old icebox in Mr. Scully's shed?
(a) A pistol.
(b) The one-eyed cat.
(c) A rifle.
(d) A dead coon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned realize about Mr. Scully and Ned's confession?

2. What still worries Ned after he returns home from Mr. Scully's house?

3. What has been taken down at Mr. Scully's house?

4. What does Ned feel about himself?

5. Where does he go on his walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ned learn from Mama about Mrs. Scallop and Mr. Scully?

2. Who does Ned meet at Mr. Scully's house one day after Mr. Scully is gone and what does she tell him?

3. About what does Ned open up and talk to his mama?

4. What are Uncle Hilary's newest plans as outlined in a letter the Willis family receives?

5. What changes does Ned find at Mr. Scully's home one day?

6. What does Ned's father notice as Ned and he are trimming the Christmas tree and what happens?

7. What does Ned learn about the Makepeace mansion?

8. Where does Ned go one moonlit night and who follows him?

9. What do Ned and his mother see playing by the light of the moon and then what arrives?

10. Why does Ned stop at Mr. Scully's house and what does he find?

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