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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is going to be living in the new houses being built next to Luke's home?
(a) Government workers and other city folk.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Miners and their families.

2. Who does Luke spy driving by the new houses while they are being built?
(a) People in cheap cars wishing they could buy the houses.
(b) Bus loads of people coming to look at the new houses.
(c) People in expensive looking cars looking to buy the houses.
(d) His grandparents.

3. What does Luke get up at dawn to watch every morning?
(a) The animals out his window.
(b) His family eat breakfast.
(c) The sun rise.
(d) The work on the new houses.

4. What does Mother do when she opens the tax bill?
(a) She tears it to pieces.
(b) She clutches it to her chest.
(c) She is so startled she drops it.
(d) She begins to weep over it.

5. What does Mark offer to play a game of with Luke to cheer him up after barging into his room?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Clue.
(c) Chess.
(d) Dominos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luke's mother say is the reason she became pregnant with him?

2. What do Dad, Matthew, and Mark load up for slaughter at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. What time does Luke's Mom get home from work?

4. What does Luke's Dad slip quietly to Luke every day around noon?

5. What does Luke beg his mother to convince his dad of in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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