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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 see hanging from a fence?
(a) A felt hat.
(b) A banana peel.
(c) A dead crow.
(d) A red bandana.

2. Where does Grandma Wolf move?
(a) To the Colonel's house.
(b) To a house down the street.
(c) To the rectory.
(d) Back to St. Louis.

3. About what does Thomas feel guilty?
(a) Thomas feels he killed his father.
(b) For not admitting to his mother what happened in the woods.
(c) For yelling at his father not long before his father dies.
(d) For all the times Thomas disobeyed his father.

4. Where does Thomas aim?
(a) He tries to make every bullet count.
(b) He aims over the heads of the German soldiers.
(c) He aims towards the greatest concentration of the enemy.
(d) He does not aim.

5. What does Thomas see as he is making his way out of the hospital?
(a) Crying nurses.
(b) Lines of men waiting for medical care.
(c) Lots of dead, gassed soldiers.
(d) Many soldiers retching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refuses to cry out with each lash of the cane Mr. Munnings administers?

2. How do Charlie and Thomas sleep at their new assignment?

3. For what do Charlie and Thomas volunteer?

4. What happens when Thomas wakes Big Joe when they find him?

5. What does the new company commander know about fighting a war?

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