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

2. 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 to teach the boys better manners.
(c) Pays the Colonel for dead fish.
(d) Stops the Colonel from whipping the boys.

3. What does Big Joe's mother say in response to his question?
(a) There is no hell so the Colonel will not go there.
(b) Animals go to a lower-level heaven than humans.
(c) The Colonel will go to heaven but will be punished for killing Bertha.
(d) All go to Heaven when they die.

4. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?
(a) Goes back and sits by Bertha's grave.
(b) Goes to the Colonel's house.
(c) Goes and lies under his bed.
(d) Wanders off.

5. Where does Big Joe keep his new pet?
(a) In his dresser drawer.
(b) In a shoe box in his closet.
(c) In a shoe box under his bed.
(d) In an empty oatmeal box on his window sill.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does Thomas say he was born?

2. What do Charlie, Thomas, and the rest of the trainees think of the war during boot camp?

3. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?

4. Why doesn't Charlie see Molly or Thomas much after the Bertha incident?

5. What are Charlie, Thomas, and the rest of their company sent out to do?

(see the answer key)

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