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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 is Thomas worried about in this first memory?
(a) Falling off the bike.
(b) School.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

2. Why does Big Joe run to the school one day?
(a) He is being chased by some bees he disturbed.
(b) To show Thomas a slow worm Big Joe finds.
(c) He is being chased by one of the town bullies.
(d) To ask Thomas for help hunting caterpillars.

3. How successful is the animal charmer?
(a) The horse no longer bucks but it will not move anywhere.
(b) He manages to get the spiders all in one room.
(c) The dog stops cowering during thunderstorms.
(d) His is not successful at all.

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

5. What does Molly do for Thomas?
(a) Helps him with his math work.
(b) Gives him her lunch.
(c) Cleans him up.
(d) Sews his torn shirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Grandma Wolf move?

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

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

4. What happens when Thomas' father yells at him to run when a tree is falling down?

5. Why does Thomas' father sometimes take Thomas into the woods?

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