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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twenty-Four Minutes Past Midnight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Charlie and Thomas made to walk?
(a) To jail in town.
(b) To the Colonel's house.
(c) To the bailiff's office.
(d) To their cottage.

2. 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) Throw stones at his manor's sign.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Molly give Big Joe for his birthday?
(a) A snake.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A harvest mouse.

4. Who refuses to cry out with each lash of the cane Mr. Munnings administers?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Big Joe.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Jimmy.

5. What does the Colonel demand when he comes to the cottage in the morning?
(a) That Charlie tell him where Bertha is.
(b) That Charlie return the Colonel's gun.
(c) That Charlie pay the Colonel for Bertha.
(d) That Charlie's mother allow the Colonel to whip him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the boys end up enjoying their Saturdays?

2. About what does Thomas feel guilty?

3. What is Thomas worried about in this first memory?

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

5. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?

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