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

2. Who refuses to cry out with each lash of the cane Mr. Munnings administers?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Big Joe.

3. What does Thomas see hanging from a fence?
(a) A banana peel.
(b) A red bandana.
(c) A felt hat.
(d) A dead crow.

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

5. What does Big Joe's mother say in response to his question?
(a) The Colonel will go to heaven but will be punished for killing Bertha.
(b) There is no hell so the Colonel will not go there.
(c) Animals go to a lower-level heaven than humans.
(d) All go to Heaven when they die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlie convince Thomas to do for him concerning Molly?

2. Why was no one worried about Big Joe earlier in the afternoon of Bertha's burial?

3. Why don't Charles and Thomas see Molly anymore?

4. What does Thomas do during his and Charlie's venture onto the Colonel's property?

5. What is the first thing Thomas thinks about from his past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thomas remember about his first day of school?

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

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

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

5. How does the boys' situation change for the better after the Colonel's wife dies?

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

7. What does Big Joe ask his mother about heaven and what is her response?

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

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

10. How does Thomas' father die?

(see the answer keys)

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