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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nearly Five to One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thomas Peaceful determined not to do?
(a) Be mean to his brother.
(b) Be angry at his father.
(c) Let his mother force him to sleep.
(d) Sleep this night.

2. What does Molly do for Thomas?
(a) Helps him with his math work.
(b) Cleans him up.
(c) Sews his torn shirt.
(d) Gives him her lunch.

3. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?
(a) Where Bertha is.
(b) Why Charlie left early the day before.
(c) If Thomas has Bertha.
(d) If Charlie thinks the Colonel is wrong.

4. Where is Bertha buried?
(a) In the orchard.
(b) In the woods.
(c) They never find her body.
(d) They cremate her.

5. Why does Thomas' father sometimes take Thomas into the woods?
(a) To be with the father when he is cutting timber.
(b) To learn how to track animals.
(c) To give him a spanking.
(d) To learn how to identify trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the thing hanging from the fence remind Thomas?

2. What does Big Joe's mother say in response to his question?

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

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

5. How many years of yesterdays and tomorrows does Thomas Peaceful have?

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