View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Charlie and Thomas try one more time while Molly is sick?
(a) Finding buried treasure at an abandoned house.
(b) Making peace with the boy who bullied Big joe.
(c) Going down an abandoned mine shaft.
(d) Poaching.

2. What does Thomas say Big Joe used to eat?
(a) Only meat.
(b) Only cornbread and beets.
(c) No meat.
(d) Everything.

3. What did Big Joe say is his favorite food?
(a) Blood pudding.
(b) Scones.
(c) Sauerkraut.
(d) Any food that was available.

4. What does Thomas usually forgo while at school?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Talking to Charlie.
(c) Eating his lunch.
(d) Flicking his lucky knife open and closed.

5. Of what does the thing hanging from the fence remind Thomas?
(a) When his father leaves the family.
(b) His other brother's death.
(c) His grandfather's farm.
(d) His father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Thomas feel guilty?

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

3. Why does Thomas' father sometimes take Thomas into the woods?

4. Where is Bertha buried?

5. Who is Jimmy Parsons?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the novel's opening, who is Thomas Peaceful with and why is he determined not to sleep?

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

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

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

6. At the novel's opening, what does Thomas Peaceful want to remember this night?

7. What happens to Bertha?

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

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

10. What is the story of the harvest mouse?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 829 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample