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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys begin yelling at the park when they are playing their game?
(a) "Where is Fishface?"
(b) "Palmer is a chicken!"
(c) "Who is afraid of us?"
(d) "Wringer! Wringer!"

2. With what ritual do the boys in town associate Farquar?
(a) The Playground Bully.
(b) The BIrthday Spankings.
(c) The Treatment.
(d) The Birthday Cake.

3. When Palmer asks his mother why the boy wrung the pigeon's neck, what does she say?
(a) "To make the boy feel proud."
(b) "To let everyone know the pigeon shoot had started."
(c) "To put the pigeon out of its misery."
(d) "To help the pigeon go to heaven."

4. What is the thing Palmer does not want to do?
(a) Be a son.
(b) Be an 'A' student.
(c) Be a big brother.
(d) Be a wringer.

5. With whom does Palmer attend his second pigeon shoot?
(a) Beans, Mutto and Henry.
(b) Dorothy Gruzik.
(c) His mother and father.
(d) His aunt and cousins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Palmer on his first Pigeon Day?

2. What do the boys leave at Fishface's front door?

3. Where did Arthur put the body of the first ever pigeon whose neck he had rung?

4. What story do people tell about Arthur at the pigeon shoot one summer before he is a wringer?

5. What is the nickname the boys give Palmer at his party?

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