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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. Why does Big Joe run to the school one day?
(a) To show Thomas a slow worm Big Joe finds.
(b) To ask Thomas for help hunting caterpillars.
(c) He is being chased by some bees he disturbed.
(d) He is being chased by one of the town bullies.

2. What is Thomas worried about in this first memory?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) Falling off the bike.
(d) School.

3. Why does Big Joe's family get worried when it becomes dark?
(a) Because Bertha is in the dirt.
(b) Because Big Joe refuses to eat.
(c) Because Bertha is alone in the dark.
(d) Because they cannot find Big Joe.

4. What does Molly say that makes Thomas think he'll love her forever?
(a) That Thomas is right to defend Big Joe.
(b) That Big Joe is nice.
(c) That Thomas is brave.
(d) That Charlie is the best brother in the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Bertha?

2. Why is Big Joe happy about Thomas and Charlie's conspiracy concerning food at meals?

3. What secret does Thomas keep?

4. Why doesn't Thomas' mother stand up to Grandma Wolf?

5. How much does Charlie's mother give the Colonel for Bertha?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Thomas and Charlie's poaching experience.

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

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

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

5. What happens to Bertha?

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

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

8. Of what does the dead crow remind Thomas?

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

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

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