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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ten to Midnight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlie tell Thomas about being in trouble?
(a) Charlie has kept one of the Colonel's puppies.
(b) Charlie has saved the runt of the litter instead of killing it.
(c) Charlie has hid Bertha.
(d) Charlie has kissed the Colonel's granddaughter.

2. What does Molly tell Grandma Wolf?
(a) Grandma Wolf is a devil.
(b) Grandma Wolf will go to hell after death.
(c) Grandma Wolf should move out.
(d) Nothing.

3. What happens when Thomas' father yells at him to run when a tree is falling down?
(a) Thomas runs into a bear trap.
(b) Thomas runs and gets clear of the tree.
(c) Thomas freezes.
(d) Thomas trips.

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) Stops the Colonel from whipping the boys.
(c) Pays the Colonel to teach the boys better manners.
(d) Allows the Colonel complete control over the boys' punishment.

5. What do the boys do when they leave the Colonel's place on Christmas Eve?
(a) Blow raspberries.
(b) Mark a big "X" in the dirt by his driveway entrance.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Throw stones at his manor's sign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the bigger boys say about Big Joe?

2. What disease does Molly contract?

3. What does Thomas feel about Molly and Charlie as time goes on?

4. Why does Big Joe cry uncontrollably one day?

5. What does Charlie promise Thomas?

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