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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that causes Gene to hurry his pace?
(a) A teacher comes to get them
(b) The dinner bell rings
(c) He is embarrassed
(d) He realizes the time

2. Who do the boys overpower to dig up a special item?
(a) Prud'homme
(b) Ludsbury
(c) Chet
(d) Brinker

3. What are the boys covered in after doing work by the tracks?
(a) Tar
(b) Snow
(c) Soot and dirt
(d) Paint

4. Who is the writer of the telegram?
(a) Finny
(b) Leper
(c) Brinker
(d) Gene

5. Who is Gene's new boss?
(a) Brinker
(b) Quackenbush
(c) Finny
(d) Prud'homme

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Finny also in disbelief about?

2. Who is supposedly going to jump from the tree?

3. What is Finny not ready to get back into?

4. Who confesses to the trip to the beach?

5. Who ruminates about what it means to be an American during a time of intense war rationed?

(see the answer key)

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