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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) Going to a school dance.
(c) The possibility of playing hockey with the bigger boys.
(d) Learning to speed skate.

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

3. What does Evelyn tell Ned about an abandoned house?
(a) Drifters live there.
(b) Her parents want to buy it.
(c) It is up for sale.
(d) It is haunted.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ned find Mr. Scully one day?

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

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

4. What does Hilary promise to Ned?

5. Where does Ned tell Papa he wants to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ned learn about the Makepeace mansion?

3. What do Billy and Ned hope for this year's winter season?

4. What does Ned's mama "confess" to Ned?

5. What happens on the first day December and what does Ned see?

6. Where is Mr. Scully taken and what is probably wrong with him?

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

8. What does Ned bring down from the attic and what is inside it?

9. What does Ned admit to Mr. Scully and what does Ned believe is the elderly man's response?

10. With whom does Ned get into a fight and why?

(see the answer keys)

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