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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 does Thomas do after graduating from school?
(a) Join the Navy.
(b) Open a produce stand.
(c) Go to college.
(d) Work at the farm where Charlie works.

2. Why don't Charles and Thomas see Molly anymore?
(a) Because her father meets Big Joe.
(b) Because she moves away.
(c) Because Molly gets angry with them.
(d) Because of her illness.

3. Where are Thomas and Charlie separated?
(a) On the school bus.
(b) At school.
(c) At the social worker's office.
(d) At church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Charlie and Thomas thwart Grandma's scheme to rid the house of Big Joe's "pets"?

5. What does the Colonel say they can do with Bertha?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Thomas and Charlie get rid of the food they do not like?

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

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

5. What future does Molly read in the gravel for her and the boys.

6. What punishment does the Colonel mete out to the boys and how does their mother amend the punishment?

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

8. What do Charlie, Thomas, and Molly do when one of the mice is caught and killed?

9. How does Thomas' father die?

10. What effect does Charlie taking Bertha have on his relationship with Molly?

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