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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the presents the boys give Palmer?
(a) A Lego kit, a bow and arrow, a DVD.
(b) A basketball, a pirate costume, a DVD.
(c) A brown apple core, a dirty sock, an old cigar butt.
(d) A bell for his bike, a Monopoly game, a pirate game.

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

3. How does Palmer feel when the boys show up to his party?
(a) He is scared of them and closes the door.
(b) He is happy to have a party.
(c) He feels he is finally accepted into their group.
(d) He is surprised since he had not invited these boys.

4. What diversion does Palmer create to keep the gang from coming to his house?
(a) Suggesting they snowball Dorothy's house.
(b) Suggesting they go to Mutto's house.
(c) Suggesting they play on the soccer field.
(d) Suggesting they go to the mall.

5. What story do people tell about Arthur at the pigeon shoot one summer before he is a wringer?
(a) He hid behind his father, afraid of the falling pigeon feathers.
(b) He wrung a pigeon's neck in the middle of a family picnic.
(c) He gathered up all of the dead pigeons in a bag.
(d) He became frightened and could not wring a pigeon's neck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palmer hear in his dream on the night of his birthday?

2. What new experience does Palmer have when falling asleep after talking to his mother?

3. How old was Palmer on his first Pigeon Day?

4. What does Beans have in the frozen spaghetti and meatballs container in his freezer?

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

(see the answer key)

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