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

2. Why doesn't Thomas' mother stand up to Grandma Wolf?
(a) His mother is too tired when she gets home.
(b) His mother says it would be disrespectful.
(c) Grandma Wolf does not need standing up to.
(d) Grandma Wolf intimidates Thomas' mother.

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

4. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?
(a) If Thomas has Bertha.
(b) If Charlie thinks the Colonel is wrong.
(c) Why Charlie left early the day before.
(d) Where Bertha is.

5. What do Molly and Charlie both do?
(a) Prepare for college.
(b) Quit school.
(c) Join a radical political group.
(d) Begin to take drives into the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who holds a gun on the boys?

2. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?

3. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?

4. What does Thomas feel about Molly and Charlie as time goes on?

5. What does Molly predict when she reads Thomas, Charlie, and her future?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of the harvest mouse?

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

3. What happens to Bertha?

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

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

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

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

8. What animal does Big Joe love and who does not share his enthusiasm for the creatures?

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

10. Of what does the dead crow remind Thomas?

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