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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas feel about Molly and Charlie as time goes on?
(a) He is being left behind.
(b) He hopes they will get married.
(c) He hopes Molly won't dessert Charlie again.
(d) He hopes Molly will like him instead of Charlie.

2. What does one of the bigger boys say about Big Joe?
(a) That Big Joe is a nuisance.
(b) That Big Joe should learn how to defend himself.
(c) That Big Joe is a loon.
(d) That Big Joe is a natural with animals.

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

4. What does the Colonel say they can do with Bertha?
(a) Return her immediatly.
(b) Eat her for all he cares.
(c) Have her.
(d) Bring her back that afternoon.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. What does Thomas realize when he and Charlie are caught on the Colonel's land?
(a) That he failed his brother.
(b) That Grandma Wolf will probably be fired due to their actions.
(c) That his mother will probably be fired due to their actions.
(d) The Colonel is a very scary man when angry.

9. Who beats up Thomas?
(a) Big Joe.
(b) Mr. Munnings.
(c) Charlie.
(d) One of the older boys at school.

10. Who refuses to cry out with each lash of the cane Mr. Munnings administers?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Big Joe.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Jimmy.

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

12. Why do the boys end up enjoying their Saturdays?
(a) They learn how to gamble.
(b) They make good friends with the dogs.
(c) They become friends with the Colonel.
(d) They learn a great deal about farming.

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

14. Who is Charlie?
(a) Thomas' brother.
(b) Thomas' best friend in the first grade.
(c) Thomas' father.
(d) The next-door neighbor.

15. Where are Charlie and Thomas made to walk?
(a) To the Colonel's house.
(b) To the bailiff's office.
(c) To their cottage.
(d) To jail in town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?

3. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?

4. What happens when Thomas' father yells at him to run when a tree is falling down?

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

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