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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 Big Joe ask his mother?
(a) If animals go to a different heaven from humans.
(b) If the Colonel will go to hell for killing Bertha.
(c) If they will all go to heaven when they die.
(d) If Bertha has a soul.

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

3. How do Charlie and Thomas sleep at their new assignment?
(a) In foxholes.
(b) Standing up.
(c) In small bunkers.
(d) In barrels cut in half.

4. How does the Colonel threaten Thomas' family?
(a) He says he will force Big Joe into an institution if Charlie does not enlist.
(b) He says he will kick them out of the cottage if Charlie does not enlist.
(c) He says he will raise their rent if Charlie keeps telling lies about the Colonel.
(d) He does not threaten the family because he's in love with Thomas' mother.

5. Who is Jimmy Parsons?
(a) The school administrator.
(b) Thomas' best friend.
(c) The school teacher.
(d) The boy who beats up Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas say Big Joe used to eat?

2. What caused most of the casualties?

3. What did Thomas used to do at The Duke that he no longer does?

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

5. How does Thomas feel towards Molly when he see her on Christmas Eve?

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