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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Dog that Bit People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of dog is Rex?
(a) A golden retriever.
(b) A cocker spaniel.
(c) A labordor.
(d) A bull terrior.

2. What does Thurber do in this chapter when he is unable to sleep?
(a) List New Jersey towns.
(b) List Italian gangsters.
(c) List Italian baseball players.
(d) Count sleep.

3. What do the family use to knock the grandfather unconscious?
(a) An axe handle.
(b) A brick.
(c) A rock.
(d) An ironing board.

4. What does Mrs. Robertson think the cricket in the basement is watching?
(a) Death.
(b) The devil.
(c) Jesus.
(d) God.

5. What do people name the day everyone fled the town?
(a) Afternoon of the Great Run.
(b) Silly Beggars.
(c) Fire, Dam and Help.
(d) Day of the Phantom Dam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Vashti's fiance?

2. Who do the police hear in the attic?

3. What does Gertie Straub pretend she is doing when she comes home drunk one night?

4. What does Father do at 9.30pm?

5. Which member of Vashti's love triangle proves to be imaginary?

(see the answer key)

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