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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 5, what does James take out when he sees the bus?
(a) His handkerchief.
(b) His hat.
(c) His money.
(d) His hands out of his pockets.

2. Who calls someone else into the back of the dentist's office?
(a) Mama.
(b) The nurse.
(c) The dentist.
(d) The man with a walking stick.

3. What is James waiting for in Chapter 1?
(a) A bus.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) His father.
(d) The mail.

4. What does James wonder if he can do to the thing he sees on the other side of the lilies?
(a) Hollar at it.
(b) Scare it.
(c) Train it.
(d) Eat it.

5. What store does Mama and James enter to get out of the cold?
(a) Arnold's grocer.
(b) David's hardware store.
(c) Lee's tack and feed.
(d) Mike's fix-it shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young black man waiting in the dentist's office holding?

2. James says he's been to the bigger city before and that he went with who?

3. What color does the young black man with the book claim the wind is?

4. Who says, "not us to question" when the lady in the dentist's office wonders why children have to be in pain?

5. What does James do beside Monsieur Bayonne?

(see the answer key)

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