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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twenty-Five Past Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Charlie and Thomas made to walk?
(a) To their cottage.
(b) To jail in town.
(c) To the bailiff's office.
(d) To the Colonel's house.

2. What does Molly tell Charlie?
(a) Her family forgives Charlie.
(b) She is moving.
(c) She is marrying someone else.
(d) She is pregnant.

3. Why does the company huddle in their trenches for two straight days?
(a) They are being bombed.
(b) The snow is too bad to go out.
(c) They are told to hide.
(d) The Germans are patrolling in tanks.

4. What do Charlie and Thomas' mother do when the boys are caught on the Colonel's land?
(a) Pays the Colonel for dead fish.
(b) Pays the Colonel to teach the boys better manners.
(c) Stops the Colonel from whipping the boys.
(d) Allows the Colonel complete control over the boys' punishment.

5. What does Thomas do at work that is different?
(a) He asks for all the dangerous assignments.
(b) Take assignments that gets him away from Charlie.
(c) He no longer sings while working.
(d) He no longer enjoys his work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?

2. What do Charlie and Thomas do every Saturday until Christmas Eve?

3. What do Molly and Charlie both do?

4. What punishment does the Colonel decide to mete out?

5. Why do the boys end up enjoying their Saturdays?

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