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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Thomas worried about in this first memory?
(a) Falling off the bike.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) School.

3. Where are Thomas and Charlie separated?
(a) At the social worker's office.
(b) At school.
(c) On the school bus.
(d) At church.

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

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

6. How many years of yesterdays and tomorrows does Thomas Peaceful have?
(a) Nearly eighteen years.
(b) Nearly twelve years.
(c) He does not specify.
(d) Almost ten years.

7. Why doesn't Charlie see Molly or Thomas much after the Bertha incident?
(a) He is working across the town.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) He has been drafted.

8. What happens when Thomas' father yells at him to run when a tree is falling down?
(a) Thomas trips.
(b) Thomas runs into a bear trap.
(c) Thomas runs and gets clear of the tree.
(d) Thomas freezes.

9. How do Charlie and Thomas thwart Grandma's scheme to rid the house of Big Joe's "pets"?
(a) They get their mother on their side.
(b) They spring the mouse traps.
(c) They leave inanimate mice around.
(d) They hide the dog under the covers.

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

11. What punishment does the Colonel decide to mete out?
(a) They have to cut firewood for the Colonel's house for the entire winter.
(b) They have to clear an acre field of rocks.
(c) A whipping and chores.
(d) None.

12. What does Charlie figure the Colonel will find out?
(a) What Charlie has done with Bertha.
(b)
(c) That Charlie intends to marry his granddaughter.
(d)

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

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

15. What is Thomas classified as when he starts school?
(a) A biggun.
(b) A tiddler.
(c) A troublemaker.
(d) A slow learner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molly predict when she reads Thomas, Charlie, and her future?

2. What song do they sing at Bertha's grave?

3. What animal does Big Joe love?

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

5. Where does Grandma Wolf move?

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