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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. LaRue think of Palmer's friend Nipper?
(a) He feels sorry for his son because he has to be a wringer this summer.
(b) He explains he is allergic to birds.
(c) He is furious and wants Nipper out of the house immediately.
(d) He has accepted Nipper and even goes to see him at night with a flashlight.

2. Why is the gang waiting for Palmer when he comes out of detention?
(a) Henry says "we wanted to hear about what happened."
(b) Beans explains "you get punished, we wait."
(c) The gang was not waiting when Palmer left detention.
(d) Mutto says "there was nothing else to do."

3. What does Palmer decide to wear to school on the last day?
(a) A football helmet.
(b) A hockey mask.
(c) His elephant mask.
(d) A stocking cap.

4. What does Palmer imagine the gang is doing while he is hiding from them?
(a) Telling people Palmer was too chicken to get The Treatment and ran away.
(b) Asking people about him and telling people he has a pigeon for a pet.
(c) Telling people he stole from the grocery store and they are looking for him.
(d) Asking people if they have seen him and if so to call the police.

5. What happens when Dorothy and Palmer return to Palmer's bedroom?
(a) Palmer's father wants to go to a ball game.
(b) Nipper is waiting at the window.
(c) Beans and Mutto are waiting at the door.
(d) Palmer's mother has fresh baked cookies waiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Palmer recognize as wringers, and what do they each do?

2. What event happens at the shoot that gets the biggest cheer of all?

3. What does Miss Kiner ask Palmer to do as punishment?

4. Why is Palmer feeling so badly on his birthday?

5. Who is on the soccer field when the gang arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What other issue between Dorothy and Palmer comes up in Chapter 29? How does Palmer feel about the situation? How does he resolve it?

2. Palmer makes his plan to avoid confrontation with Beans and Mutto on the night of his birthday. What is his plan, and does it work?

3. When the boys line up to practice wringing a pigeon's neck, Palmer lines up with them. What is this experience like for Palmer?

4. Palmer is not excited on his birthday, not thrilled with presents or the presence of his friends. Many things hang heavy in his mind. What are some of the things that are troubling Palmer on his tenth birthday?

5. Who does not attend Palmer's tenth birthday party and why? What do the boys want to talk to Mr. LaRue about? How does Mr. LaRue respond?

6. When Dorothy realizes all of the things Palmer has done to keep Nipper from harm, she calls him a hero. Why does Dorothy think Palmer is a hero? Does he feel like a hero?

7. What curious thing does Palmer notice at the Titans baseball game? What does it remind him of?

8. What does Dorothy tell Palmer at the shoot that upsets him? How does he treat Dorothy? How does she respond?

9. In Chapter 32, Beans and the gang take Palmer to find Farquar for his birthday Treatment. When Beans demands that Farquar give Palmer the Treatment, he is faced with a bully bigger than himself. How does Beans respond to Farquar? How does Palmer?

10. What do the boys learn in wringer school? Who teaches the class? What does the teacher tell the boys is most important part of being a wringer?

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