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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song do they sing at Bertha's grave?
(a) "Jesus Loves Me."
(b) "Shall We Gather at the River."
(c) "Amazing Grace."
(d) They do not sing.

2. What is Thomas Peaceful determined not to do?
(a) Sleep this night.
(b) Be mean to his brother.
(c) Let his mother force him to sleep.
(d) Be angry at his father.

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

4. Why are the boys happy after Grandma Wolf is no longer there?
(a) Their mother remarries.
(b) Their mother is back home.
(c) Grandma Wolf buys Big Joe a mouse.
(d) Grandma Wolf is now being nice to them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Grandma Wolf?

2. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?

3. How does Thomas and Charlie get rid of food they did not like?

4. What does Thomas do after graduating from school?

5. What does Molly's mother say about Charlie's letters to Molly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What precipitates a fight at school between Thomas and Jimmy Parsons?

2. How has Molly changed when she visits on Christmas Eve and how does Thomas feel about her?

3. Why is the punishment not so bad and how do the boy mark the end of their punishment period?

4. Who searches for Big Joe and where do they find him?

5. Describe Thomas and Charlie's poaching experience.

6. What does Big Joe ask his mother about heaven and what is her response?

7. What happens when Thomas and Charlie arrive at school on Thomas' first day of school?

8. How do Charlie and Jimmy react to being caned and what does Thomas feel about Charlie?

9. What does Thomas remember about his first day of school?

10. Why is Thomas glad to be working at the same farm as Charlie?

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