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

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

3. 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) Accidentally shoot an old pistol they found.
(d) Trip and knock over some tin cans.

4. Why doesn't Charlie see Molly or Thomas much after the Bertha incident?
(a) He is working across the town.
(b) He has been drafted.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He is depressed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thomas Peaceful determined not to do?

2. How does Thomas feel towards Molly when he see her on Christmas Eve?

3. Of what does the thing hanging from the fence remind Thomas?

4. What punishment does the Colonel decide to mete out?

5. For what does the Colonel think Charlie should be held accountable?

(see the answer key)

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