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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palmer ask of his mother one evening before bed?
(a) Palmer asks her to please knock before coming in to his room.
(b) Palmer asks her to please call him Snots.
(c) Palmer asks her to please do his laundry.
(d) Palmer asks her to please buy pigeon food.

2. What does Dorothy do on Palmer's birthday?
(a) She calls him that night.
(b) She brings him a huge present.
(c) She comes to his party.
(d) She gives him a kiss.

3. What does Beans tell the gang?
(a) He is ten and he is bad.
(b) He is ten and he is a wringer.
(c) He is ten and he is quitting school.
(d) He is ten and he is the leader.

4. Why is the gang waiting for Palmer when he comes out of detention?
(a) Mutto says "there was nothing else to do."
(b) The gang was not waiting when Palmer left detention.
(c) Henry says "we wanted to hear about what happened."
(d) Beans explains "you get punished, we wait."

5. What does Palmer begin to smell on his father when he sits in his dad's lap after the pigeon shoot?
(a) The smell of cigar smoke.
(b) The smell of campfire smoke.
(c) The smell of gunsmoke.
(d) The smell of cigarette smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palmer know he should wish but cannot?

2. Where is Palmer to meet the gang on Saturday for the pigeon shoot?

3. What do the boys leave at Fishface's front door?

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

5. What are the presents the boys give Palmer?

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