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

2. What does Thomas usually forgo while at school?
(a) Flicking his lucky knife open and closed.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Talking to Charlie.
(d) Eating his lunch.

3. What does Thomas do at work that is different?
(a) He no longer sings while working.
(b) He no longer enjoys his work.
(c) Take assignments that gets him away from Charlie.
(d) He asks for all the dangerous assignments.

4. What does Molly give Big Joe for his birthday?
(a) A snake.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A harvest mouse.

5. What happens when Thomas wakes Big Joe when they find him?
(a) He says Bertha slept with him.
(b) He says he is hungry.
(c) He says Bertha is not mad at the Colonel.
(d) He says he wants to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas say he plans to do?

2. What does Thomas try not to do concerning Charlie or Molly?

3. What does Thomas learn how to do at school?

4. What is Sergeant Hanely's nickname?

5. What does Thomas' mother start doing for the Colonel?

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