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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Harry and Mick get the the Girl Scout camp?
(a) The bus.
(b) They ride a bicycle.
(c) They walk.
(d) Harry borrows his mother's car.

2. Where is Jake going to go after leaving town?
(a) He is going north.
(b) He doesn't know, except that he'll stay in the South.
(c) He is going to Atlanta.
(d) He is going to go to Texas.

3. What does Biff Brannon find in the bathroom closet?
(a) A bottle of pain pills.
(b) His wife's perfume.
(c) Alice's make-up.
(d) Toilet cleaner.

4. Why isn't Mick getting enough sleep?
(a) She has to sleep on the sofa.
(b) She is helping her father at night.
(c) She is sneaking out of the house at night.
(d) She has to take care of her baby brother at night.

5. What happens after the Jake and Dr. Copeland talked most the night?
(a) They realize they both enjoy reading the same books.
(b) They both are hungry and thirsty.
(c) They realize they were hopelessly opposite in their views.
(d) They realize they agreed on many things, but not on how to accomplish them.

6. What does Mick suggest she and Harry do before they return to the meal?
(a) Dive in the water.
(b) Swing from a rope.
(c) Swim naked.
(d) Build a raft.

7. When Jake asks Willie to tell him what happened, what does Willie say?
(a) He says his feet are still hurting, and no one gave them back to him.
(b) He says he wants to be left alone.
(c) He says he can't remember.
(d) He says he was tired and in pain.

8. Why does Portia suddenly take up drinking and arrive at her father's house drunk?
(a) Her husband left her for another woman.
(b) Willie had both feet sawed off.
(c) She and Highboy could not pay their rent and had to move.
(d) She lost her job.

9. In the narration of Part 2, Chapter 14, how are the strange feelings Mick is having described?
(a) It is like she is tired all the time.
(b) It is like she missed Harry and wanted to go find him.
(c) It is like she wants to get her own apartment.
(d) It is like she is waiting for something, but didn't know what.

10. What does Mick want to tell Mr. Singer?
(a) She wants to play chess with him.
(b) She wants to marry him.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She likes visiting him.

11. What does Jake think about the town compared to others he'd visited?
(a) It is the loneliest.
(b) It is the nicest.
(c) It is the poorest.
(d) It is the dirtiest.

12. Where do Jake and Mr. Singer go in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 13?
(a) Dr. Copeland's house.
(b) Portia's house.
(c) The New York Cafe.
(d) Kelly's house.

13. What does Mr. Singer do to occupy himself when he misses Antonapoulos?
(a) He gets a part time job.
(b) He walks for miles around town.
(c) He starts a hobby.
(d) He listens to the radio.

14. What does Mr. Singer do when he returns to his home from the asylum?
(a) He cries.
(b) He slits his wrists.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He shoots himself.

15. What is the man named Simms trying to do to Jake Blount?
(a) Trying to be his friend.
(b) Trying to steal his money.
(c) Trying to convert him.
(d) Trying to join his cult.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mick go after work on August 21?

2. By May, what does Mick spend an obsessive amount of time doing?

3. How is Mick feeling at the end of Part 3, Chapter 3?

4. What happens when Jake asks for the names of the guards that hurt Willie?

5. What is Dr. Copeland supposed to do on August 21, 1939?

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