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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Beans do when he sees a pigeon in the sky?
(a) Chases it and wrings its neck.
(b) Chases after it to an alley.
(c) Pulls out a slingshot and shoots at it.
(d) Pulls out a bb gun and shoots at it.

3. What name does Palmer give his pigeon?
(a) Flipper.
(b) Nipper.
(c) Dipper.
(d) Skipper.

4. What does Palmer hear in his dream on the night of his birthday?
(a) "You are finally nine years old."
(b) "Your father must respect you to give you the soldiers."
(c) "You are so cool."
(d) "You have run out of birthdays."

5. For the gang, what makes a birthday official?
(a) Cake and ice cream.
(b) Turning ten.
(c) A pigeon shoot.
(d) The Treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Palmer feel when he arrives home after school and finds the pigeon gone?

2. What does the pigeon do when Palmer opens the window the second evening?

3. Why does Palmer run home and leave the boys behind in Chapter 12?

4. What smell comes to Palmer's nose as he walks onto the soccer field?

5. What does Palmer believe he will receive from lasting out his time with Farquar?

(see the answer key)

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