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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 280-end (Victoria Roubideaux, Ike and Bobby, McPherons, Holt).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the time the boys spend with their mother before she leaves?
(a) Awkward.
(b) Depressing.
(c) Fun.
(d) Confusing for the boys.

2. What does Victoria do when she is talking to the McPheron brothers?
(a) Turns red from embarrassment.
(b) Gets sick.
(c) Rolls the window down and sticks her head out.
(d) Starts to cry.

3. Why do Ike and Bobby leave the place where they took their classmate?
(a) Their mother comes and asks them to leave.
(b) The tree house was wrecked in the last storm.
(c) Their canoe has been stolen so they can't go out on the lake.
(d) A man arrives and points a gun at them.

4. What does Dwayne tell Victoria?
(a) He heard she was looking for him.
(b) He heard she was pregnant and living with two old men.
(c) He heard she was living with Maggie Jones.
(d) He heard she had an abortion.

5. What do they have to do to one of the cows?
(a) Isolate it for the vet to check.
(b) Kill it.
(c) Cut out a large fence splinter.
(d) Remove a mis-shapen horn.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the McPheron brothers think Maggie is joking?

2. What holiday is everyone celebrating at the end of the book?

3. What does Mrs. Beckman tend to use when she talks?

4. Where is Mrs. Stearn's family?

5. What does Victoria ask about as far as a doctor is concerned?

(see the answer key)

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