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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Quarter Past Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Thomas doing when he makes a friend at school?
(a) Learning to write his name.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Learning to tie his boots.
(d) Eating his lunch.

3. How does Thomas and Charlie get rid of food they did not like?
(a) Stuff it in their pockets.
(b) Give it to Big Joe.
(c) Give it to the dog.
(d) Stuff the food in their mouths and run outside and spit it out.

4. Where does Big Joe keep his new pet?
(a) In an empty oatmeal box on his window sill.
(b) In a shoe box in his closet.
(c) In a shoe box under his bed.
(d) In his dresser drawer.

5. Of what does the thing hanging from the fence remind Thomas?
(a) His father's death.
(b) When his father leaves the family.
(c) His grandfather's farm.
(d) His other brother's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thomas classified as when he starts school?

2. What animal does Big Joe love?

3. What does Big Joe sing as a "prayer" for Molly?

4. What is the first thing Thomas thinks about from his past?

5. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?

(see the answer key)

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