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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Bobby put on Joe’s bedside table and tell him to keep an eye on it in Chapter 1?
(a) A silver dollar.
(b) A slice of cheese.
(c) A clock.
(d) A cup of water.

2. What does Father Stock do when a homeless man does not pay for his ice cream?
(a) He offers to help him get a job.
(b) He brings the man to the rectory and gives him money.
(c) He tells him it’s on the house.
(d) He slaps it out of the man’s hand.

3. What does 15-year-old Joe begin to do in his cellar over the summer in Chapter 3?
(a) Drink, smoke, and look at pornography.
(b) Pray.
(c) Write about his life.
(d) Play music.

4. Who makes a date with Joe, but says it will cost him $20?
(a) Dora.
(b) Dinah.
(c) Doreen.
(d) Doris.

5. Which priest takes Joe around at the race and has a few too many drinks?
(a) Father Bill.
(b) Father Stock.
(c) Father Freeman.
(d) Father Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe excel at in Immaculata High School?

2. What does Delbert Freeman yell out about Joe just before the sack race in Chapter 2?

3. Who wrote the novel Wheat that Springeth Green?

4. What is the title of Chapter 1 of Wheat that Springeth Green?

5. Who carries Joe upstairs to his room in Chapter 1?

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