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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Homer say strides up to the side of the crate?
(a) A pair of hairy dog legs.
(b) A pair of polished boots.
(c) A pair of bare, white legs.
(d) A pair of bare brown feet.

2. Who hands out the bottles of medicine at the traveling show?
(a) Harold.
(b) Mini.
(c) Minerva.
(d) Maxi.

3. What kind of hat does Fleabottom wear?
(a) A top hat.
(b) A hunting cap.
(c) A stetson.
(d) A bowler hat.

4. What do the soldiers accuse Fleabottom of doing?
(a) Conning people.
(b) Killing children.
(c) Spying for the south.
(d) Hiring minors.

5. What does Homer wake up inside of at the beginning of chapter nineteen?
(a) A pig crate.
(b) A police cell.
(c) A tiger cage.
(d) A rescue boat.

6. What does Homer immediately realize Miss Nibbly and her brother are?
(a) Spies.
(b) Tricksters.
(c) Murderers.
(d) Con artists.

7. What do the Brillo Brothers throw over Homer's crate?
(a) Slops.
(b) A rug.
(c) A duvet.
(d) Plastic sheeting.

8. Where does Homer watch most of the medicine show from?
(a) The tiger cages.
(b) The roof.
(c) His tent.
(d) The grandstand.

9. Where does Fleabottom say the Totally Tattooed Woman is from?
(a) Cannibal Island.
(b) Voodoo Island.
(c) Barbados.
(d) Canary Island.

10. What do Mr. Willow and Homer have to do in Maine?
(a) Find a job.
(b) Talk to an army general.
(c) Catch a ship.
(d) Book a hotel.

11. What illness does Homer think he has convinced the crowd at the dock he has?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Bi-polar.
(c) Rabies.
(d) Epilepsy.

12. What does Homer say booms into the night as the bottles are handed around?
(a) The professor's voice.
(b) The soldiers' laughs.
(c) The soldiers' gun shots.
(d) Clinking bottles.

13. What is broken on the wagon Fleabottom stops to help?
(a) The roof.
(b) An axel.
(c) A wheel.
(d) The platform.

14. What does Fleabottom act like he is doing as he hurries away from the dock?
(a) Running away from something.
(b) Running to save someone.
(c) Running to meet someone.
(d) Training for the Olympics.

15. Who is accompanying Miss Nibbly on her trip?
(a) Her ex-husband.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Willow's job?

2. What does the balloon land in the middle of?

3. What does the boy at the dock promise to do for Homer?

4. What is the giant balloon tethered to?

5. Who does Homer think he can see from the New Jersey dock?

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