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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. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?
(a) Why Charlie left early the day before.
(b) Where Bertha is.
(c) If Thomas has Bertha.
(d) If Charlie thinks the Colonel is wrong.

2. What is the first thing Thomas thinks about from his past?
(a) His brother being hit by a car.
(b) His first bike ride.
(c) His first day of school.
(d) His father and mother yelling at each other.

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

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

5. What does Thomas do during his and Charlie's venture onto the Colonel's property?
(a) Fall asleep.
(b) Encounter one of the Colonel's dogs.
(c) Trip and knock over some tin cans.
(d) Accidentally shoot an old pistol they found.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlie promise Thomas?

2. Who is with the Colonel when he confronts the boys?

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

4. What secret does Thomas keep?

5. What does Thomas realize when he and Charlie are caught on the Colonel's land?

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