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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 Molly start doing after the fighting incident at school?
(a) Avoids Thomas.
(b) Goes to Thomas' house often.
(c) Flirts with Charlie.
(d) Warns Thomas if someone is about to jump him.

2. Who is Jimmy Parsons?
(a) The school administrator.
(b) The boy who beats up Thomas.
(c) The school teacher.
(d) Thomas' best friend.

3. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?
(a) Call the Colonel.
(b) Have dinner and hope Big Joe will arrive.
(c) Decide to wait until morning to search for Big Joe.
(d) Search for Big Joe.

4. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?
(a) Goes to the Colonel's house.
(b) Wanders off.
(c) Goes and lies under his bed.
(d) Goes back and sits by Bertha's grave.

5. How much does Charlie's mother give the Colonel for Bertha?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Threepence.
(c) Sixpence.
(d) An extra day's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas' mother start doing for the Colonel?

2. What does Thomas realize when he and Charlie are caught on the Colonel's land?

3. What does the Colonel demand when he comes to the cottage in the morning?

4. Where is Bertha buried?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Big Joe do after Bertha's funeral and why isn't anyone worried?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Big Joe feel about food and what is his favorite food?

7. Of what does the dead crow remind Thomas?

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

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

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

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