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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 is Grandma Wolf's new job?
(a) Cook at a restaurant.
(b) Tailor in the local shop.
(c) Housekeeper.
(d) Laundress for the prison.

2. What disease does Molly contract?
(a) Polio.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Rabies.
(d) Measles.

3. What does Thomas learn how to do at school?
(a) Tie his boots.
(b) Use the water fountain.
(c) Say the pledge of allegiance.
(d) Write his name.

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

5. Of what is Big Joe terrified?
(a) The dark.
(b) Death.
(c) The devil.
(d) The Colonel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who beats up Thomas?

2. What do Charlie and Thomas try one more time while Molly is sick?

3. What does Molly tell Grandma Wolf?

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

5. What do the boys do when they leave the Colonel's place on Christmas Eve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of the harvest mouse?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Of what does the dead crow remind Thomas?

8. How do Molly and Charlie gradually become distanced from Thomas and what is Thomas' response?

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

10. What happens to Bertha?

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