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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oscar pray for each night for the Strattons?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Children.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Money.

2. When Oscar meets his father along the road carrying buckets, what does Theophilus look like?
(a) Healthy and vigorous.
(b) Tanned.
(c) Dressed up in his best suit.
(d) Shrunken with dark circles around his eyes.

3. When Oscar is peering through the fence at Reverend Stratton butchering a pig, what does Stratton throw at Oscar?
(a) Pine cone.
(b) Book.
(c) Stick.
(d) Stone.

4. How old is Oscar when he leaves his father's home?
(a) Nearly sixteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twelve.

5. What do the Baptist boys make Oscar eat?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Chocolate pudding.
(c) Candy.
(d) Bananas.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his wife's death, where did Theophilus throw his wife's clothes?

2. Who did the narrator's mother love to invite over for tea?

3. What noise is described as being as "definite as a walnut cracking?"

4. What was the Christian sect that Theophilus was a member of?

5. What did Theophilus believe Christmas was?

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