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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. What does Molly's mother say about Charlie's letters to Molly?
(a) They are sweet.
(b) They are degrading.
(c) They are sinful.
(d) She has not read them.

2. Who is Grandma Wolf?
(a) Thomas' great aunt.
(b) Thomas' paternal grandmother.
(c) An elderly neighbor.
(d) Thomas' teacher.

3. What do Charlie and Thomas do every Saturday until Christmas Eve?
(a) Write essays on morality.
(b) Go to mass.
(c) Clean out the dog kennels at the Colonel's house.
(d) Play cards with their mother.

4. What do Charlie and Thomas' mother do when the boys are caught on the Colonel's land?
(a) Pays the Colonel for dead fish.
(b) Pays the Colonel to teach the boys better manners.
(c) Allows the Colonel complete control over the boys' punishment.
(d) Stops the Colonel from whipping the boys.

5. Of what does the thing hanging from the fence remind Thomas?
(a) His grandfather's farm.
(b) When his father leaves the family.
(c) His other brother's death.
(d) His father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Molly and Charlie begin to work?

2. Why is Thomas proud of Charlie on the day that Big Joe comes to school?

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

4. What does Thomas Peaceful want to remember tonight?

5. What does Thomas feel about Molly and Charlie as time goes on?

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