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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palmer get for Christmas from his parents?
(a) A new red coat.
(b) A new red bicycle.
(c) A new red sled.
(d) A new red skateboard.

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

3. While he is with the gang deciding what to do next, what amazing thing happens to Palmer in front of the gang?
(a) Palmer kisses Dorothy.
(b) Nipper bites Beans on the nose.
(c) He falls and breaks his leg.
(d) Nipper lands on his head.

4. Why does the town sponsor a pigeon shoot?
(a) To raise money for the transit system.
(b) To raise money for the school.
(c) To raise money for the playground.
(d) To raise money for the baseball team.

5. What does Palmer feed the pigeon?
(a) Bird food.
(b) Special K.
(c) Bread crumbs.
(d) FrankenPuffs.

6. Who does Palmer find in his bedroom in the middle of the night?
(a) His mother and father.
(b) Beans, Mutto and Henry.
(c) Dorothy.
(d) His brother.

7. With what ritual do the boys in town associate Farquar?
(a) The BIrthday Spankings.
(b) The Treatment.
(c) The Birthday Cake.
(d) The Playground Bully.

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

9. 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) Leaves it in the freezer for his mother to find.
(c) Hammers it to the doorframe of Dorothy's house.
(d) Gives it to Palmer as a late birthday gift.

10. What does Beans have in the frozen spaghetti and meatballs container in his freezer?
(a) A snake.
(b) A muskrat.
(c) A cat.
(d) A rat.

11. Who is Fishface?
(a) Dorothy Gruzik.
(b) The fourth grade teacher.
(c) Palmer's mother.
(d) Palmer.

12. Who does Palmer find in his room when he comes home from Beans's party?
(a) His mother.
(b) Dorothy.
(c) Henry.
(d) Arthur.

13. 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 became frightened and could not wring a pigeon's neck.
(c) He wrung a pigeon's neck in the middle of a family picnic.
(d) He gathered up all of the dead pigeons in a bag.

14. Where did Arthur put the body of the first ever pigeon whose neck he had rung?
(a) Wrapped it up and hid it in his mother's closet.
(b) Wrapped it up and buried it in his back yard.
(c) Wrapped it up and put it in his dresser drawer.
(d) Wrapped it up and put it under his bed for kids to see.

15. In Palmer's dream, what does a pigeon's eye look like?
(a) A coat button, orange with a black ring around it.
(b) A shirt button, orange with a black dot in the center.
(c) A shirt button, black with an orange dot in the center.
(d) A coat button, blue with an orange center.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Palmer's dad respond when Palmer asks him if he was a wringer?

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

3. How many different colors does Palmer count on the pigeon while the bird eats?

4. As Palmer and the gang continue treestumping and teasing Dorothy, what does Palmer expect to happen?

5. What does Palmer try to convince the gang about the pigeon?

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