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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 Theophilus check every morning as Oscar stands on a footstool?
(a) Oscar's teeth.
(b) Oscar's lungs.
(c) Oscar's scalp.
(d) Oscar's heart.

2. What does the willow pattern on the Stratton's china look like to Oscar?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Pagan symbols.
(c) A beautiful drawing.
(d) Letters from the alphabet.

3. What Sunday is it when Oscar leaves his father's home?
(a) Third Sunday in October.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) First Sunday in November.
(d) Second Sunday after Easter.

4. What local gossip does Theophilus repeat about the inscriptions along the path?
(a) The blank square is used for sacrificing goats.
(b) His rival created them.
(c) The villagers believe they are magical.
(d) The villagers wrote the messages.

5. What noise is described as being as "definite as a walnut cracking?"
(a) Angry clapping.
(b) Car backfiring.
(c) Gunshot.
(d) The man's head cracking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Stratton ask Oscar his opinion about the first night he dines with them?

2. What is the custom for the Sunday School children to do for Palm Sunday?

3. What does Lucy make at the large table in the kitchen while Theophilus is sitting there?

4. What does the membership of the Plymouth Brethren do outside the Stratton's house?

5. What is the name of the church that the narrator and his family go to each Sunday?

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