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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that makes Captain McAvoy turn his tug abruptly?
(a) Another boat is approaching too fast.
(b) Someone has jumped off the bridge.
(c) The wind has changed direction.
(d) The tug is on fire.

2. Who goes with Ed to a saloon for a drink?
(a) George Baldwin.
(b) Tony Hunter.
(c) The surgeon.
(d) Mr. Zucher.

3. What game does Maisie ask Jimmy if he knows how to play?
(a) Rummy.
(b) Go Fish.
(c) Five Hundred.
(d) Jacks.

4. How much does the lady with the pink cameo say she is going to give Bud for moving a load of coal?
(a) A dollar.
(b) A sixpence.
(c) A shilling.
(d) A rare dime.

5. Why is Mrs. McNeil skeptical that George Baldwin is a lawyer?
(a) He looks too young.
(b) He is dressed like a longshoreman.
(c) She thinks she knows him form a bar.
(d) He walked to her house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jimmy's mother tells him not to eat his ice cream too fast or he will get what?

2. What is the boy Slats really good at?

3. How does Ellen's mother think that she and her father feel about her?

4. What is Congo's favorite subject?

5. Where is the yellow-painted drugstore that the man at the end of Chapter 1 goes to?

(see the answer key)

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