Private Peaceful Quizzes

Private Peaceful Quiz 1

By Alexandra Nichipor · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed May 16, 2019

1 What does Tommo want to remember on the night the story begins?

All eighteen years of his life

His computer password

All thirty-six years of his life

His first kiss
2 Who walks to school with Tommo?

His brother Charlie

His dog Ollie

His friend Molly

His brother Big Joe
3 How does Tommo feel about going to school?

He isn't going to school

He is delighted

He is scared

He is furious
4 What does Charlie offer Tommo to make him feel better?

A piece of candy

A pet cat

A piggyback ride

A hug
5 What does Tommo see on the fence?

A scarecrow

An owl

A dead crow

A dead squirrel
6 What happened to Tommo's father?

Tommo never met him

He was killed by a falling tree

He divorced Tommo's mother

He want to war
7 Why does Tommo feel responsible for his father's death?

He made his father upset and then his father had an accident

His father pushed him out of the way of a falling tree

He stabbed his father

He pulled the trigger
8 How are the children divided at the school?

Into first and second graders

Into primary school and middle school

Into Bigguns and Tiddlers

Into girls and boys
9 Why does Tommo cry?

The bombs scare him

The dogs at the school scare him

He is worried about his mother

He doesn't know how to tie his laces
10 Who helps Tommo tie his shoes?

His mother

Miss McAllister

Charlie

Molly
11 What animal does Tommo see in the church during his father's funeral?

A swallow

A mouse

A fox

A cat
12 Who is the Colonel?

Tommo's father's commanding officer

The president of the company

Tommo's father's employer

The king of the village
13 What did Tommo's father used to say about the Colonel?

He was a brilliant scholar

He was a mad old duffer

He was as stupid as a tree stump

He was an excellent boss
14 What is Tommo's dark secret?

He was the one who killed his father

He stole money from the church

He is gay

He was adopted
15 What disgusting objects did Tommo and Charlie once feed to Big Joe?

Windex

A dead bat

Rabbit droppings

Soap
16 What happened to Big Joe to make him developmentally challenged?

He has always been this way

He was dropped on his head by the midwife

He nearly died after he was born from meningitis

He was kidnapped when he was young
17 What does Big Joe try to show the Colonel?

His new drawing

A cat

His big toe

The fish he caught
18 What does Big Joe do when the Colonel ignores him?

Throws a fish at him

Refuses to speak to him again

Blows a raspberry

Shouts his name
19 What does Jimmy Parsons say about Big Joe?

He is a loony

He is a thief

He should never have been born

He is a murderer
20 What does Charlie do when Mr. Munnings beats him?

Vows to get revenge

Calls him a curse word

Cries

Stays quiet
21 What does Molly say about Big Joe?

He is an idiot

He is very kind

He is rather handsome

He is very cruel
22 What does this statement make Tommo realize about Molly?

He doesn't like her

She is a very smart girl

She is a very stupid girl

He will love her until the day he dies
23 What does the Colonel tell the family after Father dies?

He is giving them a year's worth of Father's salary

Mother should come and be his wife

They need to move out of the cottage

He is giving the cottage to them
24 What job does the Colonel offer to mother?

Being the maid to his wife

Being an engineer

Being his concubine

Being his cook
25 Who comes to take care of the boys while Mother is at work?

Auntie Jen

Auntie Fox

Grandma Sara

Grandma Wolf

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