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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which pony does Jay Berry want?
(a) A chestnut roan.
(b) A white roan.
(c) A black paint mare.
(d) A black and white paint mare.

2. What is a fairy ring?
(a) A circular rainbow.
(b) A circle of pink flowers.
(c) A circle of mushrooms.
(d) A lavendar cloud.

3. What work is Jay Berry helping his father with in Chapter 14?
(a) Making hay.
(b) Planting.
(c) Blacksmithing.
(d) Woodworking.

4. Where does Grandpa suggest that he and Jay Berry go to learn about catching monkeys?
(a) The zoo.
(b) The circus.
(c) The veterinarian's office.
(d) The library.

5. Which Norse god does Daisy tell Jay Berry about during the bad weather?
(a) Valhalla.
(b) Frey.
(c) Baldr.
(d) Thor.

6. What effect does the sour mash have on Jay Berry?
(a) He swears off alcohol forever.
(b) He wants to build a still.
(c) He wants to be a moonshine runner.
(d) He wants to go back for more sour mash again.

7. Where do Grandpa and Jay Berry stay in the town?
(a) The Oklahoman Hotel.
(b) The Ozarks Inn.
(c) Eubanks Hotel and Wagon Yard.
(d) The Roosevelt Hotel.

8. The men who arrive in the circus truck are __________________ Johnson.
(a) Jim and Chuck.
(b) Nick and Tom.
(c) Ben and Watson.
(d) Ben and Tom.

9. What do the monkeys do when Jay Berry starts to sing?
(a) Run down to the spring.
(b) Crawl all over him.
(c) Bite Jay Berry.
(d) Put their paws over their ears.

10. Ben Johnson says that a circus just isn't a circus without __________________.
(a) Clowns.
(b) Trapeze acts.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Elephants.

11. Whom is Grandpa going to visit to see about a pony for Jay Berry?
(a) Trader Sam.
(b) Mo.
(c) Indian Tom.
(d) Butcher McGee.

12. The library that Grandpa and Jay Berry visit is a _______________ library.
(a) Powell.
(b) Carnegie.
(c) Vanderbilt.
(d) Rothschild.

13. What does Jimbo do when Jay Berry gives him an apple?
(a) Bites Jay Berry.
(b) Throws the apple back at him.
(c) Gives him a tin can of sour mash.
(d) Runs away.

14. Why is Daisy mad at Jay Berry at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) He has hidden her new hat somewhere.
(b) He nailed a board over the door to her treehouse.
(c) He has ruined her school book.
(d) He has taken too many apples for the monkeys.

15. What worries Jay Berry during the bad weather?
(a) The monkeys will drown.
(b) The monkeys will slip on the ice.
(c) Rowdy will get sick.
(d) The ice will cover his traps.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jay Berry feel when the circus truck pulls away?

2. What secret wish does Jay Berry make inside the fairy ring?

3. In the story that Mama tells, to whom is Luann engaged?

4. Daisy claims that the character she sees outside the window is sending them ____________________.

5. How does Papa show Jay Berry that he is proud of him for giving up his monkey catching money?

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