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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Four O'clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Thomas' father sometimes take Thomas into the woods?
(a) To learn how to track animals.
(b) To learn how to identify trees.
(c) To be with the father when he is cutting timber.
(d) To give him a spanking.

2. What does Thomas Peaceful want to remember tonight?
(a) To pray.
(b) Everything about his father.
(c) To call his best friend at midnight.
(d) All the memories of his life.

3. Why does Grandma Wolf ask an animal charmer from the village come to the house once?
(a) To see if he could make the horse stop bucking.
(b) To charm the Big Joe's pets away.
(c) To charm the spiders out of the house.
(d) To see if he could help the dog who was afraid of thunder.

4. What does Thomas see when he makes it into the main trench?
(a) The first German they saw is dead.
(b) One of the men from his home is dead.
(c) There are six dead Germans and none of the English is harmed.
(d) Everyone except Charlie are wounded in some way.

5. Why is Big Joe happy about Thomas and Charlie's conspiracy concerning food at meals?
(a) He doesn't want the boys' mother to feel badly that they do like her cooking.
(b) He likes to eat the extra food.
(c) He doesn't have to feed his dog as much other stuff.
(d) He finds it amusing to see the boys' pockets bulging.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Charlie?

3. Why does Big Joe's family get worried when it becomes dark?

4. What does the German soldier tell Thomas when he aims a gun to Thomas' head?

5. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?

(see the answer key)

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