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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourteen Minutes Past Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas' mother start doing for the Colonel?
(a) Does his correspondence.
(b) Takes care of the Colonel's wife.
(c) Supervises the hired help.
(d) Keeps his books.

2. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?
(a) Goes and lies under his bed.
(b) Wanders off.
(c) Goes back and sits by Bertha's grave.
(d) Goes to the Colonel's house.

3. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?
(a) Call the Colonel.
(b) Search for Big Joe.
(c) Decide to wait until morning to search for Big Joe.
(d) Have dinner and hope Big Joe will arrive.

4. What does the Colonel say they can do with Bertha?
(a) Return her immediatly.
(b) Have her.
(c) Eat her for all he cares.
(d) Bring her back that afternoon.

5. What does Big Joe's mother say in response to his question?
(a) Animals go to a lower-level heaven than humans.
(b) The Colonel will go to heaven but will be punished for killing Bertha.
(c) All go to Heaven when they die.
(d) There is no hell so the Colonel will not go there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sergeant Hanely's nickname?

2. What does Molly start doing after the fighting incident at school?

3. Where does Grandma Wolf move?

4. Why do Molly, Charlie, and Thomas bury a mouse and sing a hymn over its grave?

5. How old does the Army think Thomas is?

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