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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens after Nipper lands on Palmer's head?
(a) Beans laughs at Palmer and calls him Pigeonhead.
(b) Beans apologizes to Palmer for his cruelty.
(c) Beans grabs Nipper and wrings his neck.
(d) Beans runs up, grabs Nipper, and throws him at the feet of the shooter.

3. What did Palmer do when it was his turn to practice wringing a fake pigeon's neck?
(a) He threw the fake pigeon at Beans and walked away.
(b) He wringed the fake pigeon's neck, threw it on the ground and walked away.
(c) He threw the fake pigeon at the teacher.
(d) He screamed at the teacher and walked away.

4. What does Palmer hear that lets him know the visitors are gone?
(a) Two sharp, quick yelps.
(b) Two laughs.
(c) Someone starting up a car.
(d) A slamming of the window.

5. What color are the uniforms of the Titans?
(a) Orange.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what school do Beans and the gang bring Palmer?

2. Why does Palmer's mother ask to come into his room?

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

4. Who brings Nipper into the meadow and then into the woods?

5. Where does Palmer's dad take him one evening, just the two of them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Palmer find written on the icing of his cake later in the evening of his birthday? Who does he believe wrote it? What does he think it means?

2. How does Palmer react when his mother tells he she and his father have known about Nipper for months?

3. What does Dorothy tell Palmer at the shoot that upsets him? How does he treat Dorothy? How does she respond?

4. What example have Palmer and Nipper set for the children in the town? How can he tell his experience with Nipper has changed people's lives?

5. What curious thing does Palmer notice at the Titans baseball game? What does it remind him of?

6. Palmer explains to Dorothy that he is conflicted about school ending. What is the conflict he feels? At the end of the chapter, the narrator says "But another school was about to begin." Can you guess what this school is, and why it is beginning?

7. Palmer knows a lot about pigeons. What kinds of things does he know about releasing a pigeon so the bird will not be able to return home? How does he use this information with Nipper?

8. When Palmer refuses The Treatment from Farquar, what does he tell Beans when he is screaming at him? Why does he run from the gang then? What does Beans yell to Palmer as he is running away?

9. Palmer makes his plan to avoid confrontation with Beans and Mutto on the night of his birthday. What is his plan, and does it work?

10. Palmer is not excited on his birthday, not thrilled with presents or the presence of his friends. Many things hang heavy in his mind. What are some of the things that are troubling Palmer on his tenth birthday?

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