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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the people moving next to Luke's family's home dress?
(a) Preppy.
(b) Elegantly.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Trashy.

2. How old was Luke when he finally realized that not all children had to hide from visitors?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

3. What does Jen do when Luke asks her questions about that day he saw her?
(a) She waves the questions away.
(b) She slaps his face.
(c) She answers him.
(d) She laughs at him.

4. While the Garner family is eating dinner in Chapter 1, they hear tires on the gravel driveway. Where does Luke scramble off to?
(a) In the pantry.
(b) Under his parent's bed.
(c) Upstairs to hide.
(d) Under the table.

5. How many residents does Luke watch leave their houses before he sneaks over the the third child's house?
(a) 20.
(b) 28.
(c) 18.
(d) 30.

6. What does Luke's Dad slip quietly to Luke every day around noon?
(a) A couple cookies.
(b) Some vegetables.
(c) Soup.
(d) Two sandwiches.

7. How much more money is the tax bill from previous years?
(a) Three times the usual amount.
(b) Four times the usual amount.
(c) Five times the usual amount.
(d) Two times the usual amount.

8. What does Luke imagine in Chapter 7, which he feels guilty about?
(a) Moving in with a family with only one child and living a normal life.
(b) Running away.
(c) Wanting one of his brothers to die so he can take their place.
(d) Wishing he'd never been born.

9. After Mark leaves Luke's room, what does Luke notice light pouring out of in his room?
(a) A small hole in the wall.
(b) The ventilation shafts.
(c) A drain.
(d) Two tiny windows.

10. After Luke tells Jen how he found out about her, what is Jen stunned to hear about Luke?
(a) That his dad yelled at him for cleaning the house and baking bread.
(b) That his parents make him eat breakfast on the stairs.
(c) That he has never left his own property and he has been trapped in his house for months.
(d) That his brothers tease him about being a third child.

11. What does Mark offer to play a game of with Luke to cheer him up after barging into his room?
(a) Dominos.
(b) Chess.
(c) Clue.
(d) Checkers.

12. What does the girl, whose house Luke broke into, say about the Government monitoring phone calls?
(a) They are understaffed and too incompetent to do a good job monitoring phone calls.
(b) They are too stupid to notice anything.
(c) Her parents are too rich for the Government to bother.
(d) They have bigger problems to worry about.

13. Luke realizes his home is not a sanctuary but a ___________.
(a) Zoo.
(b) Hide out.
(c) Prison.
(d) Black hole.

14. How does Luke feel about his parents after discovering Jen?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

15. What does Dad say is the reason for the tax increase on their property?
(a) They have been suspected to be harboring a third child.
(b) The new houses next door have raised the property value of their home.
(c) The government is in financial trouble.
(d) He wouldn't sell anymore of their farmland, so he is being punished.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the new residents that will be living next to Luke called a special name?

2. How does Jen say her dad would react if he knew she'd been looking out the window?

3. After Jen tells Luke in Chapter 15 that he has come to the right place and to forget that hiding-like-a-mole stuff, what does she tell him that she is?

4. What is Luke playing with in Chapter 3 that had once been his favorite toy?

5. Who does Luke spy driving by the new houses while they are being built?

(see the answer keys)

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