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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. Why do the boys end up enjoying their Saturdays?
(a) They make good friends with the dogs.
(b) They become friends with the Colonel.
(c) They learn how to gamble.
(d) They learn a great deal about farming.

2. Where is the company ordered on the third day?
(a) To move forward to meet the Germans.
(b) To fall back to a new line of trenches.
(c) To stay in the trenches.
(d) On the firesteps.

3. What punishment does the Colonel decide to mete out?
(a) They have to clear an acre field of rocks.
(b) They have to cut firewood for the Colonel's house for the entire winter.
(c) A whipping and chores.
(d) None.

4. What does Charlie figure the Colonel will find out?
(a)
(b) What Charlie has done with Bertha.
(c) That Charlie intends to marry his granddaughter.
(d)

5. Where does Thomas aim?
(a) He does not aim.
(b) He aims towards the greatest concentration of the enemy.
(c) He aims over the heads of the German soldiers.
(d) He tries to make every bullet count.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie and Thomas try one more time while Molly is sick?

2. What do the boys do when they leave the Colonel's place on Christmas Eve?

3. Who is with the Colonel when he confronts the boys?

4. What does Molly tell Charlie?

5. Why is Charlie sent home?

(see the answer key)

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