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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. Where does Big Joe keep his new pet?
(a) In a shoe box under his bed.
(b) In a shoe box in his closet.
(c) In an empty oatmeal box on his window sill.
(d) In his dresser drawer.

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

3. Who figures out where Big Joe is?
(a) Molly.
(b) Big Joe's mother.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Charlie.

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

5. Why doesn't Thomas' mother stand up to Grandma Wolf?
(a) Grandma Wolf does not need standing up to.
(b) His mother is too tired when she gets home.
(c) His mother says it would be disrespectful.
(d) Grandma Wolf intimidates Thomas' mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?

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

3. What does Big Joe ask his mother?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do they bury Bertha and why kind of funeral does she receive?

2. How does the boys' situation change for the better after the Colonel's wife dies?

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

4. What does Charlie do when he sees Thomas in a fight with Jimmy Parsons and what happens to the boys who are fighting?

5. Why is Charlie upset by the Colonels plans for Bertha and what does he do to thwart those plans?

6. What happens when the Colonel arrives at the cottage the morning after Charlie steals Bertha?

7. What is life like when Grandma Wolf comes to live at the boys' home?

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

9. Of what does the dead crow remind Thomas?

10. How do Charlie and Thomas thwart Grandma Wolf's attempts to get rid of the mice?

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