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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. Where does Hollis ask Steven to take her as she jumps on the back of the snowmobile?
(a) The phone booth at the grocery store.
(b) The airport.
(c) Back to the Summer house.
(d) The art store.

2. What does Hollis see move on the opposite bank of the river?
(a) A bear.
(b) A deer.
(c) A person.
(d) A wolf.

3. Where does Hollis go after she leaves the Regans' home?
(a) The Stucco Woman's house.
(b) Beatrice's house.
(c) The Lemon Lady's house.
(d) Josie's house.

4. Why does Hollis leave the Regans' home the day after the accident?
(a) They think she is nothing but trouble.
(b) She wants to hitchhike to California.
(c) She thinks she has messed up the family.
(d) Another family wants to adopt her.

5. Who rescued Hollis when she was injured on the mountain?
(a) Steven.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Izzy.
(d) The Mustard Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hollis retrieve from the shed for Josie to use?

2. Who is hugging Hollis in her drawing, End of Summer?

3. What name does Steven call Holly which makes the Old Man mad?

4. In her head, Hollis begs the Old Man and Izzy not to _____________________.

5. When questioned by Hollis, Josie says that Santa Claus looked ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hollis show that she truly has Josie's best interests in mind?

2. What touching scene does Hollis create in her Ninth Picture, Izzy's Cake?

3. How does Hollis try to distract Josie who starts to get homesick?

4. What gifts do Hollis and Josie give each other for Christmas?

5. Why is the girl in the Thirteenth Picture, the Conference Room, not Hollis?

6. Why does Hollis run away from the Regans' home after the truck accident and refuse to see any of them again?

7. How does the author show that someone knows that Hollis and Josie are staying at the Summer house?

8. What startles Hollis when she tries to fish on the riverbank?

9. Why does Hollis not actually draw the Eleventh Picture, On the Mountain?

10. How can Hollis draw her Tenth Picture, Hollis Woods, with her eyes closed?

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