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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does April decide after she receives the item from her mother around Christmas time?
(a) She plans to visit her mother.
(b) She decides to live with her mother after the end of the school year.
(c) She writes a letter to her mother explaining that she will continue to live with Caroline.
(d) She declines to visit her mother.

2. What do the intruders think about their intrusion?
(a) They think it is too scary.
(b) They think it is enjoyable for everyone.
(c) They think it is funny.
(d) They think it is insensitive.

3. What does Marshall tell the police that the Professor did that night when he and April left Egypt?
(a) He yelled for help.
(b) He ran out into the yard.
(c) He watched from his window.
(d) He did nothing to help them.

4. Who is the second Egyptian to pose a question to Thoth?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Melanie.
(c) Toby.
(d) April.

5. What news does April receive in a letter from her mother?
(a) She is singing more now, in hopes of getting a recording career.
(b) She lands a part in a Hollywood movie.
(c) She is married, so April cannot come home.
(d) She thinks April should be able to return to Hollywood soon.

6. Where is Security found?
(a) At a lost and found.
(b) Under the statue of Set.
(c) At nursery school.
(d) At Marshall's house.

7. What do Ken and Toby bring to Egypt after the children are permitted outside again?
(a) They bring a drawing of Ra for the altar.
(b) They bring snacks for everyone.
(c) They bring supplies for Set's altar.
(d) They bring scrolls they have been working on.

8. What does Marshall notice while the others are performing the Ceremony of the Dead?
(a) The crocodile stone is missing.
(b) There is someone in the alley.
(c) There is a storm rolling in.
(d) The Professor is watching them.

9. What is Toby's reaction to the Egypt Game?
(a) He is enthusiastic.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He makes fun of the Egyptians.

10. Whom does April think is responsible for the answer, when she takes the paper from Thoth's beak?
(a) The Professor.
(b) A stranger.
(c) One of the other Egyptians.
(d) One of their classmates.

11. What does Marshall do when the police officers ask him questions about the attack on April?
(a) He starts to cry.
(b) He asks questions but does not answer theirs.
(c) The session exceeds his attention span and he gets fidgety.
(d) He answers the questions.

12. What happens to the remains of Petey's body?
(a) It is placed on a homemade raft and set afloat in a creek.
(b) It is buried in a shoebox.
(c) It is mummified.
(d) It is cremated.

13. What happens to Elizabeth's pet parakeet, Petey?
(a) It is killed by a cat.
(b) It is sold to an old woman in the neighborhood.
(c) It flies away.
(d) It gets sick and dies.

14. What does Toby confide to April and Melanie?
(a) He has been writing the answers to the questions posed to the Oracle.
(b) He has been writing in the scrolls.
(c) He goes to Egypt to perform ceremonies alone.
(d) He does not want to stop playing the Egypt Game because it is a refuge from his homelife.

15. What happens when April and Marshall leave Egypt after visiting at night?
(a) A car drives down the alley.
(b) Someone grabs April as she leaves Egypt.
(c) They see a shadow lurking in the distance.
(d) Marshall starts crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do April and Melanie think will happen with the boys' involvement in the Egypt Game?

2. Who performs the Ceremony of Returning to the Oracle for the Answer?

3. What do the Egyptians decide that the procession should have?

4. Why is April babysitting Marshall?

5. What is April's reaction to the intruders on Halloween night?

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