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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry behave in Palmer's room?
(a) Casual and unconcerned.
(b) Mean and teasing.
(c) Happy and playful.
(d) Nervous and uncomfortable.

2. What happens when Dorothy and Palmer return to Palmer's bedroom?
(a) Palmer's father wants to go to a ball game.
(b) Palmer's mother has fresh baked cookies waiting.
(c) Beans and Mutto are waiting at the door.
(d) Nipper is waiting at the window.

3. What do Dorothy and Palmer finally decide to do with Nipper?
(a) Let Palmer's parents help them make a plan for Nipper.
(b) Dorothy will hide Nipper in her room until the gang leaves Palmer alone.
(c) Dorothy will release him far away while she is on vacation.
(d) Release Nipper in the park and leave food for him there.

4. How does the gang treat Palmer now that he has refused The Treatment and left them?
(a) They tease him, including treestumping him, and spit on his shoes.
(b) They break into his bedroom and mess up his room.
(c) They call him names and steal his bike.
(d) They ask him to come back to the group now that he has gotten rid of Nipper.

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

6. Where does Palmer's dad take him one evening, just the two of them?
(a) To the movies to see "Independence Day."
(b) To a basketball game at the downtown arena.
(c) To a baseball game in a nearby town.
(d) To the mall to play video games.

7. What do the kids call the teacher of the class?
(a) The Wringmaster.
(b) The Pigeon Scout.
(c) The Wringer Expert.
(d) The Death Machine.

8. What do Dorothy and Palmer decide to do with Nipper?
(a) Bring Nipper to a veterinarian's office.
(b) Take Nipper to Dorothy's house and hide him.
(c) Take Nipper away from their neighborhood so he will be safe.
(d) Bring Nipper to the zoo.

9. Why does Palmer run upstairs after hearing about the cat?
(a) He knows there is no cat and she thinks he has a pigeon.
(b) He is afraid he will tell his mother about Nipper.
(c) He knows she saw Panther, and wants to check on Nipper.
(d) He wants to make sure his windows are all closed.

10. For what does Palmer thank Henry?
(a) Not messing up his room on the search.
(b) The warning on his birthday cake.
(c) Answering his questions.
(d) His birthday present.

11. Who does Palmer recognize as wringers, and what do they each do?
(a) Beans and Mutto working alone as wringers.
(b) Beans, Mutto and Henry who all wring the pigeon's necks.
(c) Beans who wrings, Mutto who wrings, and Henry who bags the dead pigeons.
(d) Henry who wrings with his older brothers.

12. Why does Palmer's mother ask to come into his room?
(a) To tell him he must clean his room.
(b) To ask him about his plans for the pigeon shoot.
(c) To ask him about the white, chalky spots all over the room.
(d) To tell him she knows about Nipper.

13. What does the worker that Palmer meets give to him?
(a) A cold bottle of root beer.
(b) A popcicle.
(c) A Coke.
(d) A cold can of Sprite.

14. How do many of the pigeons come out of the boxes for the shoot?
(a) They are flying circles overhead and diving down to the shooters.
(b) They are walking about or pecking for food rather than flying.
(c) They walk out, look around, then fly away.
(d) They are flying away faster than they shooters can shoot.

15. Why does Palmer tell Dorothy he lives in the wrong town?
(a) Because in his town people kill pigeons.
(b) Because he wants to be on the stage.
(c) Because he is a natural comedian.
(d) Because he should live in a big city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Palmer realize he has left in his room?

2. With whom does Palmer go to the Family Fest?

3. Where does Palmer go on his bike on Friday night?

4. Who is on the soccer field when the gang arrives?

5. What does Palmer decide to wear to school on the last day?

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