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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gillian believe about the world?
(a) That Gillian is meant to serve others in the world?
(b) That it is a fearful place.
(c) That it revolves around her.
(d) That it is completely safe anywhere.

2. What does Ben do for sick children?
(a) Puts on magic shows.
(b) Fixes their wheelchairs.
(c) Takes them for a ride in his fire engine.
(d) Sues doctors for them.

3. What happens when Sally and Gillian start school at their new location?
(a) Gillian is popular but everyone thinks Sally is strange.
(b) They are very popular.
(c) No one will play with them.
(d) Sally is popular but everyone thinks Gillian is strange.

4. What does a boy in the class do to a black cat?
(a) Chops off its tail.
(b) Sets its tail on fire.
(c) Cuts its front right paw off.
(d) Clips its ears.

5. What does Gillian think she got from Jimmy?
(a) Nothing.
(b) What she deserved.
(c) Continual grief.
(d) A sense of the macabre.

6. Who are Jet and Frances?
(a) Sally and Gillian's best friends.
(b) Sally and Gillian's parents.
(c) Sally and Gillian's cousins.
(d) Sally and Gillian's aunts.

7. What does Gillian do that all the single women in town think is crazy?
(a) Cries every night in the graveyard.
(b) Refuses to color her hair.
(c) Returns the flowers Ben sends her.
(d) Visits the town drunk every day in the park.

8. What does Ben think he hears in Gillian's voice?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Humor.
(c) Hestitation about wanting him to leave.
(d) Hysteria.

9. What happens to Sally's husband?
(a) He is killed by a drunk driver.
(b) He is jailed for income tax evasion.
(c) He dies of cancer.
(d) He leaves her for another woman.

10. How does Gillian appear when Sally sees her?
(a) Weak and nervous.
(b) Rich.
(c) Upbeat.
(d) Calm and serene.

11. What happens to the boy who does something to a cat?
(a) A tile falls on his head.
(b) He gets ill and dies.
(c) He gets a really bad sunburn.
(d) He trips and breaks his arm.

12. What is Sally doing for a job?
(a) Grocery clerk.
(b) House cleaner.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Secretary.

13. What does Kylie feel about her upcoming birthday?
(a) She is indifferent about it.
(b) She wants to invite all the popular kids and is nervous about the party.
(c) Her life is going to change drastically.
(d) She is getting old and has no boyfriend.

14. Who dies in a fire?
(a) Sally and Gillian's aunts.
(b) Sally and Gillian's schoolmates.
(c) Sally and Gillian's cousins.
(d) Sally and Gillian's parents.

15. How does Sally respond to Gillian's predicament?
(a) Hysterically.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She is unwilling to help.
(d) Calmly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Sally and Gillian Owens do?

2. What is something Jet and Frances never tell Sally and Gillian?

3. What was Jimmy selling to college kids?

4. Who does Kylie say enjoys it when Sally and Gillian fight?

5. Where were the people who died in a fire?

(see the answer keys)

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