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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. How does Ned believe Mr. Scully responds to Ned's confession?
(a) Mr. Scully understands and forgives Ned.
(b) Mr. Scully thinks Ned is being too hard on himself.
(c) Mr. Scully does not know what Ned is saying.
(d) Mr. Scully seems angry about it.

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

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

4. Why doesn't Ned visit his mother one day?
(a) She has gone to the city for a new treatment.
(b) He is ill.
(c) She is too ill.
(d) He is too busy working at the church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Mama's treatments working?

2. What does Ned know about Mr. Scully and the man's house?

3. What is lying on an old icebox in Mr. Scully's shed?

4. What does Ned find as he sits at his secret place and looks out at the countryside?

5. Who does Ned encounter one day at Mr. Scully's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ned do for Janet that shows his kind nature?

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

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

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

5. What is Mama's good news and how does Ned respond?

6. What does Ned learn about the Makepeace mansion?

7. After he recovers from his illness, where does Ned often go and what does he do there?

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

9. What does Mama tell Ned about something she did when Ned was three?

10. Where is one place Uncle Hilary suggests he and Ned might want to visit on Christmas break?

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