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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Minute Past Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst thing for Charlie and Thomas where they are now?
(a) The continual loss of their trench mates.
(b) The sounds of soldiers dying.
(c) The rain.
(d) The constant sound of mortar fire.

2. What does Molly predict when she reads Thomas, Charlie, and her future?
(a) They will always be together.
(b) Big Joe will do something extraordinary.
(c) Thomas will marry her.
(d) Charlie will die soon.

3. What does Thomas usually forgo while at school?
(a) Flicking his lucky knife open and closed.
(b) Eating his lunch.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Talking to Charlie.

4. What happens in the next minute after the German soldier sees the English?
(a) The English shoot the German.
(b) The German throws a grenade.
(c) The German runs shrieking to his comrades.
(d) The English tackle the German and gag him.

5. Who holds a gun on the boys?
(a) No one.
(b) The deputy sheriff.
(c) The Colonel.
(d) The bailiff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is hanging on the peg that used to be for Thomas and Charlie's father's coat?

2. How do Charlie and Thomas thwart Grandma's scheme to rid the house of Big Joe's "pets"?

3. How does Thomas manage to get accepted?

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

5. Why do Molly, Charlie, and Thomas bury a mouse and sing a hymn over its grave?

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