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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. What does Victoria find when she gets home after work?
(a) The house is on fire.
(b) She is locked out.
(c) The house has been broken into.
(d) Her mother left town.

2. What do they have to do to one of the cows?
(a) Cut out a large fence splinter.
(b) Remove a mis-shapen horn.
(c) Kill it.
(d) Isolate it for the vet to check.

3. What happens to Bobby near the end of the work?
(a) He jumps off the fence and sprains his ankle.
(b) He trips and falls off the fence into the pig pen.
(c) He breaks his arm.
(d) He is run over by a cow.

4. Why does Tom Guthrie have to see Lloyd Crowder?
(a) To talk to Crowder about a boy in history class.
(b) To resign his position.
(c) To ask for a raise.
(d) To talk to Crowder about Ike's progress in English class.

5. What does Victoria need on her lunch break?
(a) To see the principal.
(b) To talk to the boy who is the father of her baby.
(c) Time to get to the pay phone and call her boss.
(d) Something to eat that will not aggravate her nausea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the male student's report?

2. With whom does Maggie Jones live?

3. What happens when Victoria declines a ride from a school boy?

4. Why do Ike and Bobby leave the place where they took their classmate?

5. Who is Russell Beckman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Stearns do with Ike and Bobby while the cookies are baking? What does she tell them?

2. What do the McPheron brothers do after dinner? How does Victoria's first night at their house go?

3. What kind of report does a male student make in Guthrie's class and what does he say when Guthrie asks why his report is so short? What is Gurthrie's response to the student's answer?

4. What happens with the last cow that needs done and what do the brothers decide to do with her?

5. What happens the third night Victoria is working at a convenience store?

6. What does Maggie tell Harold at the store and what do he and his brother decide they need to do?

7. What do the McPheron brothers say when Tom Guthrie arrives with Ike and Bobby to help vaccinate their cattle?

8. Where is Guthrie attending a party, why does he leave early, where does he go and what does Maggie tell him when he leaves?

9. Who do Ike and Bobby visit, what does she say and what does she do?

10. What do Ike and Bobby do before school at the beginning of the book?

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