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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Colonel demand when he comes to the cottage in the morning?
(a) That Charlie return the Colonel's gun.
(b) That Charlie tell him where Bertha is.
(c) That Charlie pay the Colonel for Bertha.
(d) That Charlie's mother allow the Colonel to whip him.

2. Why does Big Joe's family get worried when it becomes dark?
(a) Because Big Joe refuses to eat.
(b) Because they cannot find Big Joe.
(c) Because Bertha is alone in the dark.
(d) Because Bertha is in the dirt.

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

4. What do Molly and Charlie both do?
(a) Join a radical political group.
(b) Prepare for college.
(c) Begin to take drives into the country.
(d) Quit school.

5. What does Charlie promise Thomas?
(a) That Thomas will love school.
(b) To take care of Thomas.
(c) That their mother is going to be well.
(d) That their father will come back home.

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

7. What does Molly predict when she reads Thomas, Charlie, and her future?
(a) Thomas will marry her.
(b) Big Joe will do something extraordinary.
(c) Charlie will die soon.
(d) They will always be together.

8. What does Molly give Big Joe for his birthday?
(a) A snake.
(b) A harvest mouse.
(c) A bird.
(d) A cat.

9. Why does Big Joe run to the school one day?
(a) He is being chased by one of the town bullies.
(b) To show Thomas a slow worm Big Joe finds.
(c) To ask Thomas for help hunting caterpillars.
(d) He is being chased by some bees he disturbed.

10. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?
(a) She is terrified of them.
(b) She thinks dogs belong outside.
(c) She thinks cats shed all the time.
(d) She loves the birds, too, and puts crumbs out for them.

11. 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 for dead fish.
(c) Stops the Colonel from whipping the boys.
(d) Pays the Colonel to teach the boys better manners.

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

13. What animal does Big Joe love?
(a) Mice.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Birds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?

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

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

4. What does Molly say that makes Thomas think he'll love her forever?

5. What is Thomas worried about in this first memory?

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