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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. What do Charlie and Thomas find when they return from work one day?
(a) Grandma Wolf is dead.
(b) Molly is there.
(c) Their mother is ill.
(d) The Colonel is dead.

2. Who holds a gun on the boys?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) The bailiff.
(c) The deputy sheriff.
(d) No one.

3. What does Thomas say he plans to do?
(a) Take over Charlie's job at the farm after Charlie enlists.
(b) Lie about his age and enlist.
(c) Never go to war.
(d) Beat up the Colonel.

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

5. Where is Thomas' company sent next?
(a) To Southern France.
(b) Back behind the front lines.
(c) To Italy.
(d) The Wipers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charlie feel about what Molly tells him?

2. Why is Charlie sent home?

3. What does the new company commander know about fighting a war?

4. What happens when the Germans go into retreat?

5. What does Thomas do during his and Charlie's venture onto the Colonel's property?

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