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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth believe is the true cause of Ariel's change of heart regarding Juilliard?
(a) Ariel's relationship with Karl.
(b) Ariel's admiration of Emil Brandt.
(c) Ariel's fear of failure.
(d) Ariel's fear of severe homesickness.

2. How was Bobby Cole killed?
(a) He drowned.
(b) He was run over by a speeding train.
(c) He fell off a steep cliff.
(d) He was strangled.

3. Why do Frank and Jake walk home from the jail instead of riding in their father's car?
(a) Jake wants to go break out Morris' headlights before returning home.
(b) Gus throws up in their father's backseat.
(c) Their father does not tell them why they have to walk home.
(d) Frank wants to try peeping at their next door neighbor before returning home.

4. Why do Frank and Jake look forward to Saturday dinners at their house?
(a) Because their father usually cooks and often they get to eat outside.
(b) Because their mother makes their favorite dinner: pot roast.
(c) Because Ariel always brings her boyfriend Karl to dinner.
(d) Because that night Gus always comes to dinner.

5. What is the name that some people in town call Jake and that Frank calls him as well when he is angry?
(a) Lash LaRue.
(b) Howdy Doody.
(c) Charlie McCarthy.
(d) Mister Greenjeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Jake think Frank should apologize and why?

2. What work does Ariel do for Emil Brandt in exchange for music tutelage?

3. Where do Nathan and Gus finally find Travis Klement once they locate him?

4. What prompts Gus and Morris to be thrown in jail?

5. When Frank leaves Emil and Lise's house and goes to Warren Redstone's lean-to, who does he see there?

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