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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "country saying" that Grandma Dowdel uses when she and the kids set out to go fishing in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
(a) "Scat and skedaddle."
(b) "Douse the fire and hide the ax and skillet."
(c) "Lift up your bloomers and set sail."
(d) "Go West, Young Man."

2. Whose cow does Grandma Dowdel claim to have started the Great Fire of Chicago in "The Phantom Brakeman"?
(a) Mr. O'Neill's cow.
(b) Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
(c) Mrs. Keene's cow.
(d) Mr. Butler's cow.

3. What does Grandma Dowdel tell Mary Alice that Shotgun Cheatham smelled like in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) A polecat.
(b) A flower-bed.
(c) An oil tanker.
(d) A horse stall.

4. How old is Ray Veech in "Things with Wings"?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

5. How does Grandma Dowdel describe Shotgun Cheatham when Mary Alice asks her who he was in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
(a) "He was a priest before he left the church and died."
(b) "He was a Civil War General and fought alongside Ulysses S. Grant."
(c) "He was a bank robber and a horse thief."
(d) "He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke."

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it every year when Joey and Mary Alice visit Grandma Dowdel?

2. Whose framed picture hangs on the wall of the Coffee Pot Cafe in "The Phantom Brakeman"?

3. How much does Ray Veech want Joey to pay him for a full driving course in "Things with Wings"?

4. Where does Joey say he and Mary Alice go to see the movies back home in "Things with Wings"?

5. Of Grandma Dowdel, Joey says in "The Mouse in the Milk," "You didn't want to hang around her too close, or she'd" do what?

(see the answer key)

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