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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How successful is the animal charmer?
(a) The dog stops cowering during thunderstorms.
(b) He manages to get the spiders all in one room.
(c) The horse no longer bucks but it will not move anywhere.
(d) His is not successful at all.

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

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

4. Why does Grandma Wolf ask an animal charmer from the village come to the house once?
(a) To charm the Big Joe's pets away.
(b) To see if he could help the dog who was afraid of thunder.
(c) To charm the spiders out of the house.
(d) To see if he could make the horse stop bucking.

5. What does Molly tell Grandma Wolf?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Grandma Wolf will go to hell after death.
(c) Grandma Wolf is a devil.
(d) Grandma Wolf should move out.

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

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

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

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

10. What is one way that Molly is different when the boys see her on Christmas Eve?
(a) She is gaunt.
(b) Her hair is down to the back of her knees.
(c) Her hair is shorter.
(d) She is heavier.

11. What does Charlie tell Thomas about being in trouble?
(a) Charlie has kissed the Colonel's granddaughter.
(b) Charlie has hid Bertha.
(c) Charlie has kept one of the Colonel's puppies.
(d) Charlie has saved the runt of the litter instead of killing it.

12. Who refuses to cry out with each lash of the cane Mr. Munnings administers?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Big Joe.

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

14. Why might Big Joe be more upset than the family realizes?
(a) He does not cry when they bury Bertha.
(b) He refuses to look for Bertha.
(c) He is slow and may misunderstand the answers to his questions.
(d) He say he is going to go to his room to sleep in the middle of the day.

15. What happens to Bertha?
(a) She dies in her bed.
(b) The Colonel shoots her.
(c) They don't know as she just disappears.
(d) She is hit by a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Thomas' mother stand up to Grandma Wolf?

2. What does Charlie refuse to tell the Colonel?

3. What happens when Thomas' father yells at him to run when a tree is falling down?

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

5. What is Thomas classified as when he starts school?

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