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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Five to One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?
(a) She thinks cats shed all the time.
(b) She thinks dogs belong outside.
(c) She loves the birds, too, and puts crumbs out for them.
(d) She is terrified of them.

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

3. What is Thomas doing when he makes a friend at school?
(a) Learning to write his name.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Learning to tie his boots.
(d) Eating his lunch.

4. What does Big Joe ask his mother?
(a) If the Colonel will go to hell for killing Bertha.
(b) If Bertha has a soul.
(c) If they will all go to heaven when they die.
(d) If animals go to a different heaven from humans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Thomas wakes Big Joe when they find him?

2. Where do Molly and Charlie begin to work?

3. How many years of yesterdays and tomorrows does Thomas Peaceful have?

4. What song do they sing at Bertha's grave?

5. Why are the boys happy after Grandma Wolf is no longer there?

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