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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Frank and Jake walk home from the jail instead of riding in their father's car?
(a) Their father does not tell them why they have to walk home.
(b) Gus throws up in their father's backseat.
(c) Jake wants to go break out Morris' headlights before returning home.
(d) Frank wants to try peeping at their next door neighbor before returning home.

2. What is the name that some people in town call Jake and that Frank calls him as well when he is angry?
(a) Charlie McCarthy.
(b) Howdy Doody.
(c) Mister Greenjeans.
(d) Lash LaRue.

3. What reason does Warren Redstone cite for the 1862 attack on the white settlers by the Sioux tribe?
(a) Because the Sioux were starving and had been denied food promised them in a treaty.
(b) Because the Sioux had discovered the white settlers' use of smallpox-infected blankets to kill their tribe members.
(c) Because the white settlers had attacked the Sioux first.
(d) Because the Sioux realized that the white settlers wanted to own land the Sioux had occupied for centuries.

4. Who stays with Lise at her house while Emil is in the hospital?
(a) Frank and Ruth.
(b) Julia and Axel.
(c) Jake and Frank.
(d) Jake and Ariel.

5. In what month and year does the narrator's story begin?
(a) January of 1967.
(b) January of 1961.
(c) July of 1969.
(d) July of 1961.

6. What reason does Julie give for saying Emil's suicide attempt is fortunate?
(a) Because Ariel and Karl still have each other around for comfort.
(b) Because Emil's attempt allows Ruth to feel like a savior.
(c) Because Lise will have to move into an assisted care home and get the care she needs.
(d) Because Emil will get the psychological help he obviously needs.

7. Where do Frank and Jake always go after they are done with their grandfather's yard work?
(a) The railroad tracks.
(b) Edna Sweeney's house.
(c) Halderson's Drug Store.
(d) The river.

8. When Father Peter tells Nathan the reasons for the townspeople's negative feelings about Ruth's role as the minister's wife, what three reasons does he give?
(a) Ruth drinks, swears, and does not make weekly visits to the different families' homes.
(b) Ruth smokes, drinks, and shuns the activities of the Women's Society of Christian Service.
(c) Ruth smokes, swears, and wears short skirts to church services.
(d) Ruth frequently skips church, does not invite families to her home, and does not provide donuts after church services.

9. Who first voices the suspicion that Bobby Cole's death might have involved foul play?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Gus.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Officer Doyle.

10. Why do Frank and Jake look forward to Saturday dinners at their house?
(a) Because Ariel always brings her boyfriend Karl to dinner.
(b) Because their mother makes their favorite dinner: pot roast.
(c) Because that night Gus always comes to dinner.
(d) Because their father usually cooks and often they get to eat outside.

11. What two words does Emil keep repeating once he returns home from the private hospital?
(a) "I'm fine."
(b) "I'll die."
(c) "Thank you."
(d) "Go away."

12. When Officer Doyle, Gus, and Frank pass by the Emil Brandt's house in Officer Doyle's Studebaker, who is sitting on the porch with Emil?
(a) Karl.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Jake.
(d) Ariel.

13. When the family is leaving for Bobby Cole's funeral, where does Frank go when he tells Jake to stay at home for a minute?
(a) He goes to take one last look at the railroad tracks where Bobby had been killed.
(b) He goes to tell Ariel that her boyfriend Karl has decided not to go to the funeral.
(c) He goes under the porch to pray for Bobby's soul.
(d) He goes next door in hopes of seeing Edna Sweeney doing yard work while scantily clad.

14. To whom does Jake think Frank should apologize and why?
(a) He thinks Frank should apologize to Morris so that neither he nor Jake will be beat up.
(b) He thinks Frank should apologize to Ariel to keep her from telling the boys' secrets to their parents.
(c) He thinks Franks should apologize to Karl so that both he and Jake will still be offered rides in Karl's sports car.
(d) He thinks Frank should apologize to Nathan so that neither he nor Jake will be grounded again.

15. Which of their father's three church services is Frank's and Jake's favorite?
(a) The service in New Bremen.
(b) The service in Fosburg.
(c) The service in Cadbury.
(d) The service in Minneapolis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fixes Jake's suit?

2. Why does Jake decide not to go to the fireworks stand with Frank, Gus, and Officer Doyle?

3. What object does Frank see sticking out of Danny's Uncle Warren's pocket?

4. Whose vehicle do the boys see parked at the quarry when they arrive there?

5. Where do Nathan and Gus finally find Travis Klement once they locate him?

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