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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palmer finally do on the last Monday of the school year?
(a) He tickles the teacher.
(b) He hits a student.
(c) He cheats on a test.
(d) He breaks a window.

2. What did Palmer notice Mutto was carrying in his pocket on the way home from school?
(a) A dart.
(b) Candy.
(c) A slingshot.
(d) A BB gun.

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

4. What does Palmer realize he has left in his room?
(a) Nipper's bed.
(b) The Honey Crunchers he feeds Nipper.
(c) HIs flashlight.
(d) HIs pillow.

5. What does Palmer find in his bedroom when he rushes in?
(a) His mother looking at the mess in his room.
(b) Dorothy playing with Nipper and his Nerf ball.
(c) Nipper at the window and the yellow cat on his bed.
(d) Nipper at the window and Dorothy shooting baskets.

6. Who does Palmer find has joined his side at the shoot?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Beans.
(d) Dorothy.

7. Where does Palmer go the night of the warning?
(a) To sleep in his parent's bedroom.
(b) To sleep at his cousin's house.
(c) To sleep with Nipper behind the living room couch.
(d) To sleep at Dorothy's.

8. What do the boys run in to the den to look at again and again?
(a) Mr. LaRue's Sharpshooter Award.
(b) The dart board.
(c) Mr. LaRue's big screen television.
(d) The family portrait.

9. With what does Palmer play in his room alone?
(a) With the new Nerf football he bought.
(b) With the new Lego set his parents gave him after Nipper left.
(c) With the soldiers his father gave him for his birthday.
(d) With the shoe box that Nipper roosted in.

10. What does Palmer decide to do to avoid the warning?
(a) Open the window and make Nipper fly away.
(b) Spend the night at Dorothy's.
(c) Tell his parents he is afraid of Beans.
(d) Take Nipper and sleep somewhere else in the house.

11. What was Beans holding when he came to the door the morning after the party?
(a) The basketball Palmer got for his birthday.
(b) The Nerf ball with Nipper's name on it.
(c) Palmer's baseball cap.
(d) Dorothy's diary.

12. What does Palmer realize while hiding from the gang?
(a) The gang has given up on finding him.
(b) He is hungry and it is dinner time.
(c) His mother might go into his room looking for him.
(d) Nipper is on his way to Palmer's bedroom window.

13. What are some of the ways Palmer says the gang might try to kill Nipper?
(a) Slingshots, BB guns, and poison.
(b) Poison, traps, and slingshots.
(c) Slingshots, pellet guns, and nets.
(d) Nets, pellet guns, and traps.

14. Where does Palmer end up going on Saturday morning?
(a) He goes to his cousin's house.
(b) He goes to the pigeon shoot.
(c) He goes to the mall.
(d) He goes to Dorothy's house.

15. What are the sacrifices Palmer sees he has made in order to save Nipper?
(a) He is not in the gang anymore, he feels he is a traitor, and his pet is gone.
(b) He is not in the gang anymore, Beans wants to get him, and he is a liar.
(c) He is not in the gang anymore, he is a liar, and he is a fake.
(d) He is not in the gang anymore, Nipper is gone, and he has lost Dorothy, too.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dorothy begin laughing when Palmer is talking seriously about Nipper's possible fate?

2. When Dorothy tells him he is famous, how does Palmer respond?

3. Why does Palmer tell Dorothy he lives in the wrong town?

4. What does Palmer explain to Dorothy when he tells her about his afternoon disagreement with the gang?

5. What does Palmer imagine the gang is doing while he is hiding from them?

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