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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 Roswell start to do with some of the money from sales at his work in Chapter 18?
(a) Count it.
(b) Return it.
(c) Pocket it.
(d) Hide it.

2. What is the only thing the boy has eaten in Chapter 5?
(a) A piece of toast.
(b) A pie.
(c) An egg.
(d) An apple.

3. Who gets fired by the end of Chapter 23 over the missing money?
(a) Mark.
(b) Henry.
(c) Dick.
(d) Roswell.

4. Where does Dick and Henry take Mark with them on Sunday?
(a) Warden retreat.
(b) Sunday school class.
(c) Children's orphanage.
(d) Morning tower.

5. Who feeds the boy in Chapter 5?
(a) Mr. Dick.
(b) Mr. Greyson.
(c) Mrs. Flanagan.
(d) Mother Watson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the clerk that waits on Dick at the bookstore?

2. What does the store owner decide to do with Mark after he has talked to both him and Roswell?

3. Who does not like Roswell in Chapter 16?

4. When Mark insists that he did not take the money, what does Roswell say about Mark?

5. Who works for Richard Hunter in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roswell's stealing reveal about his character in Chapter 18?

2. Describe Mark's experience sleeping on the ferry.

3. How does Mark's life change in Chapter 12?

4. How does Ben try to help Mark get his twenty-five cents in Chapter 6?

5. When Mark faints, what happens to him in Chapter 13?

6. Why is Bates looking for his grandson?

7. How does Dick try to help Henry in Chapter 1 of Mark the Match Boy?

8. Describe how Mark feels about begging.

9. How does Dick assist Mark in getting a job and improving his education in Chapter 15?

10. How does Roswell obtain the money for his new membership in Chapter 21?

(see the answer keys)

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