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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourteen Minutes Past Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Big Joe cry uncontrollably one day?
(a) His snake eats his mouse.
(b) Grandma Wolf kills his pet.
(c) His bird flies away.
(d) The neighbor kills his snake.

2. What do Charlie, Thomas, and the rest of the trainees think of the war during boot camp?
(a) As a distant thing.
(b) As glorious.
(c) As a necessary evil.
(d) As immoral.

3. What does Big Joe's mother say in response to his question?
(a) There is no hell so the Colonel will not go there.
(b) The Colonel will go to heaven but will be punished for killing Bertha.
(c) All go to Heaven when they die.
(d) Animals go to a lower-level heaven than humans.

4. What did Big Joe say is his favorite food?
(a) Blood pudding.
(b) Scones.
(c) Any food that was available.
(d) Sauerkraut.

5. What does Big Joe after Bertha's burial?
(a) Goes to the Colonel's house.
(b) Goes back and sits by Bertha's grave.
(c) Goes and lies under his bed.
(d) Wanders off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?

2. Why are the boys happy after Grandma Wolf is no longer there?

3. Why doesn't Charlie see Molly or Thomas much after the Bertha incident?

4. What does Molly predict when she reads Thomas, Charlie, and her future?

5. Why was no one worried about Big Joe earlier in the afternoon of Bertha's burial?

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