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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Four O'clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How successful is the animal charmer?
(a) The dog stops cowering during thunderstorms.
(b) The horse no longer bucks but it will not move anywhere.
(c) His is not successful at all.
(d) He manages to get the spiders all in one room.

2. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?
(a) Why it is so neat.
(b) How the Germans manage to have dry trenches.
(c) Why their food smells so much better than theirs.
(d) Where everyone is.

3. Why was no one worried about Big Joe earlier in the afternoon of Bertha's burial?
(a) He often wanders off.
(b) He said he was going to his room.
(c) He gave the Colonel a hug.
(d) He was playing quietly by himself and did not seem upset.

4. Who is with the Colonel when he confronts the boys?
(a) No one.
(b) His field supervisor.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The bailiff and his hound.

5. What does the German soldier tell Thomas when he aims a gun to Thomas' head?
(a) Run.
(b) You're dead.
(c) Pray.
(d) Sorry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thomas classified as when he starts school?

2. Where does Thomas go after putting on his gas mask?

3. Why doesn't Thomas' mother stand up to Grandma Wolf?

4. Where does Grandma Wolf move?

5. What caused most of the casualties?

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