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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jake decide not to go to the fireworks stand with Frank, Gus, and Officer Doyle?
(a) He wants to stay and bake with Ariel.
(b) He says he has a bad feeling about it.
(c) He and Frank are still technically grounded.
(d) He does not have money to buy fireworks.

2. Why is the new Bremen bank a source of fascination for Frank?
(a) Because it had been robbed the year before and the crime had never been solved.
(b) Because he has a crush on the bank teller.
(c) Because he wants to be a banker when he grows up.
(d) Because it had been robbed by Pretty Boy Floyd in the 1930s.

3. What is the real reason for Amelia's absence from church?
(a) She has fallen ill with influenza.
(b) Her husband Travis has left her and her son Peter with visible bruises.
(c) Her son Peter has run away.
(d) Travis has forbade her from attending church.

4. How does Jake's suit shoulder get torn?
(a) Ariel tears it while trying to adjust Jake's suit.
(b) He tears it on purpose to avoid having to go to Bobby's funeral.
(c) Frank tugs his sleeve to get him to hurry up.
(d) He tears it while jumping over a fence.

5. Why do Frank and Jake walk home from the jail instead of riding in their father's car?
(a) Gus throws up in their father's backseat.
(b) Jake wants to go break out Morris' headlights before returning home.
(c) Their father does not tell them why they have to walk home.
(d) Frank wants to try peeping at their next door neighbor before returning home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person to give a eulogy at Bobby's funeral?

2. What song does Ruth Drum sing at Bobby's funeral?

3. When the family is leaving for Bobby Cole's funeral, where does Frank go when he tells Jake to stay at home for a minute?

4. What word does Ruth instruct the family to use when talking about Skipper, the dead man the boys had found on the tracks?

5. What war experience does Travis Klement have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Frank to abruptly run away from the Indian man and to drag Jake along with him?

2. How does Axel's request of Jake at the hospital reveal differences between Frank and Jake?

3. What are the purposes of the Drum family's visit to Emil and Lise Brandt's house?

4. How does Nathan react to Father Peter's communication with him about the townspeople's problems with Ruth?

5. During Gus' and Frank's conversation about Nathan's experiences in the war, what two sources of information does Gus warn Frank against heeding?

6. Where do Frank and Jake go just before Bobby Cole's funeral, and how does Jake's suit sleeve get ripped?

7. What messages is the reader meant to absorb from the conversation between Frank and Warren Redstone in the O'Keefes' basement?

8. What lengths has Gus gone to in order to make sure Nathan does not know of the card games he runs in the basement of the church?

9. How does Frank feel about his older sister Ariel?

10. What is ironic about Lise's reaction to Frank's grabbing of her shoulder when they succeed in moving the huge rock in her garden?

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