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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 58-78 (McPherons, Victoria Roubideaux).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Ike and Bobby go to the train station?
(a) To take the metro train to school.
(b) To watch for their father.
(c) To get newspapers for their delivery route.
(d) To watch a train with a new type of diesel engine come into the station.

2. What do they decide to do to the nervous cow?
(a) Tranquilize it.
(b) Choose it for the slaughter house.
(c) Vaccinate it where it is.
(d) Leave it be.

3. Where is Mrs. Stearn's family?
(a) All dead.
(b) In the same town, but they won't speak to her.
(c) She does not know.
(d) Scattered all about the United States.

4. What does Ike and Bobby's mother say when the two boys check on her?
(a) She tells them she loves them very much.
(b) She gives vague answers to their questions.
(c) She tells them a story.
(d) She cries and says she never wants to see them in there again.

5. What does Crowder say about Beckman?
(a) That he is not expected to live much longer.
(b) That Bobby is the boy's only friend.
(c) That he is going to be valdictorian.
(d) That none of the teachers like him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys ask about the McPheron brothers?

2. For what do Harold and Raymond wait?

3. What does Maggie do after Irving Curtis whispers something to him?

4. What does Maggie say Victoria needs to do?

5. Where do Ike and Bobby go after doing their chores on Saturday morning?

(see the answer key)

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