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

2. What does Luke tells his brother he put into the bread?
(a) Flies.
(b) Ants.
(c) Spit.
(d) Poison.

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

4. What event does Luke recall that made him realize his brothers have never had to hide like him?
(a) Matthew's birthday party.
(b) Mark's birthday party.
(c) His mother's birthday party.
(d) His father's birthday party.

5. Why has Luke been banned from using the telephone?
(a) He always talks too long.
(b) He likes to call random people and hang up.
(c) The Government has the technology to trace a call and can even verify the caller's identity.
(d) He tries to call his dad at work too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Luke's brothers, Matthew and Mark, complain that they will have to do since Luke is not allowed outside anymore?

2. What does the girl, whose house Luke broke into, do while she talks on the phone to her dad?

3. What is Luke delighted to find after his whole family leaves in a hurry in Chapter 8?

4. 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?

5. Why didn't Luke's parents take the Population Law seriously when they became pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Luke's mom tell him about how she became pregnant with him in Chapter 2?

2. How does the author grab the reader's attention right away at the beginning of the book?

3. What does Luke recall from when he turned 6 that is important to his realizing that he is different from his brothers?

4. Who are the Barons?

5. Does Luke's mother stick up for him?

6. What does Luke's mom do when they hear tires on the gravel driveway in Chapter 1?

7. What does Luke do all day to help pass the time?

8. What does Luke begin to plan in Chapter 12?

9. What does Luke's mother do so that the family can pay the property tax bill?

10. Why has the property taxes on Luke's home gone up?

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