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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the vet give to the horse along with castor oil?
(a) Aspirin and something like sodium bicarbonate.
(b) Acetaminophen and something like Alca-Seltzer.
(c) Morphine and something like Zantac.
(d) Codeine and something like Pepto-Bismol.

2. How does Havey get exercise?
(a) By running after rats and chickens.
(b) By running round and round the barn while Bernie waters the animals.
(c) By chasing the Lady and nipping at the horses.
(d) By running up and down the farm road to the barn.

3. What trait gives Caroaggio his name?
(a) Courteousness.
(b) Caring.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Courage.

4. What word does Ben ask Whittington to explain?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Potential.
(c) Promise.
(d) Plague.

5. What did Ben take before locking himself in the bathroom?
(a) A piece of pie.
(b) A book of matches.
(c) A kitchen knife.
(d) A bottle of beer.

6. Who does the carriage driver tell the agent that Dick is?
(a) An itinerant orphan.
(b) A son of a friend of his.
(c) A wanted criminal.
(d) A distant cousin.

7. What color do the Lady's black tail feathers look in the sunlight?
(a) Purple.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

8. Where do the bantams roost when not sitting on eggs?
(a) Up in a tree outside the barn.
(b) Up in the roof rafters.
(c) On the hay bales.
(d) In the wired chicken roost on the side of the barn.

9. What problem do his kids have feeding Whittington his tuna?
(a) They spill the tuna on the ground.
(b) A rat steals the tuna.
(c) There is no can opener.
(d) Whittington turns his head up at the tuna.

10. Which of the following was NOT one of Dick's "rememberables"?
(a) Tell Truth, and shame the Devil.
(b) Time and tide wait for no man.
(c) Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
(d) A cat may look on a King.

11. What clinches Whittington's place in the family of the barn animals?
(a) Ben and Abby asking about the cat.
(b) The Lady's feeling about Whittington.
(c) Whittington's manner to the chickens.
(d) Whittington's fighting words to the rats.

12. How long do Whittington's injuries from the fight last?
(a) Until Valentine's Day.
(b) Until St. Patrick's Day.
(c) Until April Fool's Day.
(d) Until New Year's.

13. What does Whittington sound like the name of, to the Lady?
(a) A cemetary.
(b) A town.
(c) A noble.
(d) A country.

14. What alarms Bernie, Abby, and Ben most about Spooker's behavior?
(a) She doesn't run around.
(b) She doesn't eat.
(c) She doesn't drink.
(d) She doesn't paw the ground.

15. How cold is it on the night the black hen is frozen?
(a) Five degrees below zero.
(b) Fifteen degrees below zero.
(c) Ten degrees below zero.
(d) Zero degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affliction is the herb the captain tells Fitzwarren about used to treat?

2. How many grandchildren does Bernie have?

3. Where is Bernie when the farmer drops the black hen off at the gas station?

4. What does Bernie use to make a water dish for the black hen?

5. What vehicle does the vet come in?

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