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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 are the boys happy after Grandma Wolf is no longer there?
(a) Their mother remarries.
(b) Grandma Wolf buys Big Joe a mouse.
(c) Grandma Wolf is now being nice to them.
(d) Their mother is back home.

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

3. Why does Big Joe cry uncontrollably one day?
(a) Grandma Wolf kills his pet.
(b) The neighbor kills his snake.
(c) His bird flies away.
(d) His snake eats his mouse.

4. About what does Thomas feel guilty?
(a) For not admitting to his mother what happened in the woods.
(b) For yelling at his father not long before his father dies.
(c) For all the times Thomas disobeyed his father.
(d) Thomas feels he killed his father.

5. What secret does Thomas keep?
(a) That Charlie loves a girl down the street.
(b) That his father was angry with Thomas just before the father dies.
(c) That Thomas' older brother sneaks out of the house at night.
(d) That his father died saving Thomas' life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How successful is the animal charmer?

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

3. What do the boys do when they leave the Colonel's place on Christmas Eve?

4. How does Thomas and Charlie get rid of food they did not like?

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

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