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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bookie Barney had to pay off?
(a) Strong Davis.
(b) Big Mike.
(c) Little Tony.
(d) Simple Pete.

2. From whom do the siblings steal food?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Other children.
(c) Their grandmother.
(d) Their mother.

3. Where did Barney live in Stockton?
(a) In a tenament.
(b) In a terraced house.
(c) In a hostel.
(d) In a hotel.

4. Where did Barney work as a fry cook?
(a) Santa Barbara.
(b) Jacksonville.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

5. Whom does Barney tell Casey about as they walk through the flower garden?
(a) Her mother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Barney want to keep his luck in the hospital?

2. What do the other girls nickname Casey?

3. Whom did Paw take to the cinema years before?

4. What does Casey's teacher tell her after she slaps her with a ruler?

5. What are the two ways Barney has always promised the narrator he would make money?

(see the answer key)

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