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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Minute Past Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does everyone share in common?
(a) Being cold.
(b) The fear of letting down their buddies.
(c) The terrible heat.
(d) The lack of food.

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

3. What happens when a German comes out from behind a curtain?
(a) He raises his hands and surrenders.
(b) He starts shooting at the English.
(c) The German and the English stare at each other for a minute.
(d) He falls to the ground and begs for his life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why don't Charles and Thomas see Molly anymore?

3. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?

4. Why was no one worried about Big Joe earlier in the afternoon of Bertha's burial?

5. What does one of the bigger boys say about Big Joe?

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