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

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

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

4. What is one way that Molly is different when the boys see her on Christmas Eve?
(a) Her hair is down to the back of her knees.
(b) Her hair is shorter.
(c) She is heavier.
(d) She is gaunt.

5. What does Charlie convince Thomas to do for him concerning Molly?
(a) Deliver letters.
(b) Try to convince her parents that Charlie is not a thief.
(c) Try to talk to Molly and convince her to run away with Charlie.
(d) Set up meetings with Molly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thomas say Big Joe used to eat?

3. Where does Big Joe keep his new pet?

4. What do Charlie and Thomas' mother do when the boys are caught on the Colonel's land?

5. What does Thomas usually forgo while at school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Bertha?

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

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

4. How do Charlie and Jimmy react to being caned and what does Thomas feel about Charlie?

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

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

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

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

9. How has Molly changed when she visits on Christmas Eve and how does Thomas feel about her?

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

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