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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas learn how to do at school?
(a) Write his name.
(b) Say the pledge of allegiance.
(c) Use the water fountain.
(d) Tie his boots.

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

3. Why do Molly, Charlie, and Thomas bury a mouse and sing a hymn over its grave?
(a) Big Joe is so despondent about its demise.
(b) To make Grandma Wolf feel badly.
(c) Molly wants the kids to learn about death.
(d) The children want to give their father some company.

4. What does Molly say that makes Thomas think he'll love her forever?
(a) That Thomas is brave.
(b) That Charlie is the best brother in the world.
(c) That Thomas is right to defend Big Joe.
(d) That Big Joe is nice.

5. What secret does Thomas keep?
(a) That his father was angry with Thomas just before the father dies.
(b) That Thomas' older brother sneaks out of the house at night.
(c) That Charlie loves a girl down the street.
(d) That his father died saving Thomas' life.

6. How many years of yesterdays and tomorrows does Thomas Peaceful have?
(a) Nearly twelve years.
(b) Almost ten years.
(c) He does not specify.
(d) Nearly eighteen years.

7. Who is Jimmy Parsons?
(a) The boy who beats up Thomas.
(b) Thomas' best friend.
(c) The school teacher.
(d) The school administrator.

8. What does Molly give Big Joe for his birthday?
(a) A bird.
(b) A harvest mouse.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

9. What do Charlie, Thomas, and their mother on the day of the burial do after it gets dark?
(a) Decide to wait until morning to search for Big Joe.
(b) Call the Colonel.
(c) Have dinner and hope Big Joe will arrive.
(d) Search for Big Joe.

10. What is the first thing Thomas thinks about from his past?
(a) His father and mother yelling at each other.
(b) His brother being hit by a car.
(c) His first day of school.
(d) His first bike ride.

11. What do Charlie and Thomas try one more time while Molly is sick?
(a) Finding buried treasure at an abandoned house.
(b) Making peace with the boy who bullied Big joe.
(c) Going down an abandoned mine shaft.
(d) Poaching.

12. What do Molly and Charlie both do?
(a) Prepare for college.
(b) Join a radical political group.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Begin to take drives into the country.

13. What does the Colonel do even though he accepts Charlie's mother's offer?
(a) Fire Charlie.
(b) Punch Charlie in the face.
(c) Require Charlie to work a day without pay.
(d) Fire Charlie and his mother.

14. What happens when Thomas wakes Big Joe when they find him?
(a) He says Bertha slept with him.
(b) He says he wants to die.
(c) He says Bertha is not mad at the Colonel.
(d) He says he is hungry.

15. Why don't Charles and Thomas see Molly anymore?
(a) Because she moves away.
(b) Because her father meets Big Joe.
(c) Because of her illness.
(d) Because Molly gets angry with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thomas doing when he makes a friend at school?

2. Why does Big Joe cry uncontrollably one day?

3. How does Grandma Wolf feel about Big Joe's favorite animal?

4. What does Thomas realize when he and Charlie are caught on the Colonel's land?

5. What has Thomas Peaceful finally managed to do?

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