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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem does Ellie trade with someone else so she does not have to do the one assigned her?
(a) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
(b) "The Lady of Shalot."
(c) "Sonnet 46."
(d) "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock."

2. Why does Mr. Morton yell at Ellie?
(a) She traded off the Beowulf poem.
(b) She refuses to give the poetry report.
(c) She accidentally bumps into him.
(d) She squirts ketchup on him.

3. How does Will answer Ellie's question?
(a) He does not want to talk about Jennifer.
(b) He is home schooled.
(c) He came over because Ellie intrigues him.
(d) He lives in the country about five miles out of town.

4. What does Ellie leave the bleachers to do?
(a) To look for Liz.
(b) To find a quiet place to call her mother.
(c) To find the restroom.
(d) To buy hot dogs.

5. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.
(b) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.
(c) If that might be brier rabbit.
(d) How the man got down there without a machete.

6. Where are Ellie and her parents living at the opening of the story?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Annapolis.
(d) Richmond.

7. Where does Will's father work now?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The Naval Academy.
(c) Frodor's Publishing.
(d) The New York Times.

8. Who smiles at Ellie as she is walking down the hall?
(a) The captain of the football team.
(b) A guy she meet in biology class.
(c) A guy she saw in the principal's office when she enrolled.
(d) One of the guys she saw in the woods.

9. Why is Will hurt on the field?
(a) He is hit when jumping into the end zone.
(b) Lance does not guard him well.
(c) He is hit when jumping for a pass.
(d) One of the linemen slips and lets a tackle by.

10. Will pulls Ellie to the __________to talk to her.
(a) Widow's walk.
(b) Basement family room.
(c) Library.
(d) Pool room.

11. After whom is Ellie named?
(a) The Lady of Avalon.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
(d) The Lady of Shalot.

12. What does Ellie think of the school itself?
(a) It's old and ugly.
(b) It's wonderful.
(c) It's gloomy.
(d) It's run down.

13. What does Will say about his mother?
(a) She died in a car accident when he was six.
(b) She died when he was born.
(c) She lives in London.
(d) She lives in New York.

14. Why is a member of the other team taken off on a stretcher?
(a) The boy breaks his leg when he falls wrong.
(b) Lance hits him really hard as payback.
(c) The boy knocks his head on the goal post.
(d) Lance loses his temper and trips the guy.

15. What is Will's father rumored to have done?
(a) Killed his best friend.
(b) Worked as a Soviet spy.
(c) Escaped from a prison camp in Vietnam.
(d) Killed his first wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?

2. What does Ellie think of the majority of the kids at school?

3. Who is Cavalier?

4. What does Ellie's mother invite Will to do?

5. How long has Ellie known Liz?

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