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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Grandma Wolf?
(a) Thomas' great aunt.
(b) Thomas' teacher.
(c) An elderly neighbor.
(d) Thomas' paternal grandmother.

2. What disease does Molly contract?
(a) Polio.
(b) Measles.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Rabies.

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

4. How does Thomas and Charlie get rid of food they did not like?
(a) Give it to Big Joe.
(b) Stuff the food in their mouths and run outside and spit it out.
(c) Stuff it in their pockets.
(d) Give it to the dog.

5. What do the boys do when they leave the Colonel's place on Christmas Eve?
(a) Blow raspberries.
(b) Throw stones at his manor's sign.
(c) Mark a big "X" in the dirt by his driveway entrance.
(d) Nothing.

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

7. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?
(a) Search for Big Joe.
(b) Decide to wait until morning to search for Big Joe.
(c) Call the Colonel.
(d) Have dinner and hope Big Joe will arrive.

8. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?
(a) If Charlie thinks the Colonel is wrong.
(b) Where Bertha is.
(c) Why Charlie left early the day before.
(d) If Thomas has Bertha.

9. What do Charlie and Thomas do every Saturday until Christmas Eve?
(a) Write essays on morality.
(b) Go to mass.
(c) Clean out the dog kennels at the Colonel's house.
(d) Play cards with their mother.

10. How does Thomas describe Grandma Wolf?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Easy going.
(c) Always cheerful.
(d) Strict with lots of rules.

11. What does Molly tell Grandma Wolf?
(a) Grandma Wolf will go to hell after death.
(b) Grandma Wolf is a devil.
(c) Grandma Wolf should move out.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Molly do for Thomas?
(a) Gives him her lunch.
(b) Cleans him up.
(c) Sews his torn shirt.
(d) Helps him with his math work.

13. Where is Bertha buried?
(a) In the woods.
(b) They never find her body.
(c) They cremate her.
(d) In the orchard.

14. What is Thomas doing when he makes a friend at school?
(a) Learning to tie his boots.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Learning to write his name.
(d) Eating his lunch.

15. What does Thomas' mother start doing for the Colonel?
(a) Supervises the hired help.
(b) Keeps his books.
(c) Does his correspondence.
(d) Takes care of the Colonel's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?

2. What does the Colonel demand when he comes to the cottage in the morning?

3. What does the Colonel do even though he accepts Charlie's mother's offer?

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

5. Why are the boys happy after Grandma Wolf is no longer there?

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