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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is tapping at Palmer's window early one morning?
(a) Beans and Mutto.
(b) A pigeon.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) A squirrel.

2. Who is the one person who does not care about Palmer's bruised arm?
(a) Palmer's mother.
(b) Dorothy.
(c) Beans.
(d) Nipper.

3. Why does Palmer tell Dorothy he lives in the wrong town?
(a) Because he wants to be on the stage.
(b) Because he is a natural comedian.
(c) Because he should live in a big city.
(d) Because in his town people kill pigeons.

4. What is treestumping?
(a) Standing in front of a tree and throwing snowballs at houses.
(b) Standing behind a tree and throwing snowballs at passing cars.
(c) Standing behind a tree and throwing a snowball at Dorothy.
(d) Standing in front of Dorothy like a tree to block her walking.

5. Who do Palmer and the gang attack with snowballs on their way to school one morning?
(a) Henry.
(b) Mutton.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Dorothy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palmer decide to wear to school on the last day?

2. What diversion does Palmer create to keep the gang from coming to his house?

3. Where do Palmer and the kids in town go on the day it snows?

4. When Palmer asks his mother why the boy wrung the pigeon's neck, what does she say?

5. When Dorothy tells him he is famous, how does Palmer respond?

(see the answer key)

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