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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. Why does Toby get mad at Scarlett in Chapter 10?
(a) For telling Juan he is there.
(b) For telling the Sheriff he is there.
(c) For telling Cal he is not there.
(d) For telling Miss Myrtie May that Toby does not have a cake with him.

2. How do Toby and Cal pass time while waiting at their lookout post?
(a) By making up stories about Paulie.
(b) By eating.
(c) By playing video games.
(d) By measuring things.

3. How does Toby's mother finish in the singing competition?
(a) She loses all together.
(b) She places second.
(c) She places third.
(d) She wins.

4. Where is the farm that Cal's father owns?
(a) In their backyard.
(b) At a house he inherited from his mother.
(c) Outside of town.
(d) At his grandfather's house.

5. Who does Toby receive a letter from in Chapter 11?
(a) Cal.
(b) Paulie.
(c) Wayne.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous French landmark does Zachary tell Cal and Toby about in Chapter 11?

2. Where does Cal live?

3. What kind of walls block off the sideshow boy from the visitors?

4. Who wants to get out of the sideshow line to get something to eat?

5. What one item in the trailer looks like it is not sterile?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Scarlett thank Toby for dancing with her at the lake?

2. Why does Miss Myrtie Mae appear when the crowd starts to form at the trailer when it arrives in Chapter 1?

3. Why does Toby believe that Cal is good with kids?

4. Why do the boys continue to leave food items on Zachary's steps?

5. What strikes Toby as unusual when Zachary tells him about his travels in Paris? What does it make Toby think?

6. What is the town rumor about Miss Myrtie Mae?

7. Why do Toby and Cal sit on top of the bowling alley at the beginning of Chapter 6?

8. Why does Toby take Scarlett's sister to see the sideshow?

9. Why did Cal think he would be hired to cut Miss Myrtie Mae's lawn each week?

10. Why has Antler's population dwindled?

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