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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Palmer decide to handle Saturday and the pigeon shoot?
(a) He pretends to be sick and stays home all day.
(b) He goes with Dorothy's family to the neighboring town to shop.
(c) He leaves with his family for the weekend.
(d) He runs away from home.

2. What does Palmer know he should wish but cannot?
(a) That Nipper would move to Dorothy's house.
(b) That Nipper should only fly at night.
(c) That Nipper would go to a pigeon-friendlier town.
(d) That Nipper would find a friend.

3. Where does Palmer's pigeon sleep?
(a) In his closet.
(b) In the snow.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) On the windowsill.

4. How does Palmer feel running with the boys?
(a) Alone.
(b) Let down.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Excited.

5. What does Beans do with the contents of the spaghetti and meatballs container from the freezer?
(a) Throws it away after he shows the gang.
(b) Hammers it to the doorframe of Dorothy's house.
(c) Gives it to Palmer as a late birthday gift.
(d) Leaves it in the freezer for his mother to find.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beans do when he sees a pigeon in the sky?

2. What does Palmer's father give him as a ninth birthday gift?

3. Who is the one person who does not care about Palmer's bruised arm?

4. In Palmer's dream, what does a pigeon's eye look like?

5. Where did Arthur put the body of the first ever pigeon whose neck he had rung?

(see the answer key)

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