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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Luke rescue his family from the attack?
(a) He stabs them with a butcher knife.
(b) He unleashes Caesar the tiger.
(c) He calls his father for help.
(d) He grabs his father's shotgun.

2. How does Tom feel after reading Renata's book?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is indifferent.
(c) He is curious.
(d) He is sad.

3. What is Renata Halpern's book about?
(a) Poetry that seems to resemble Savannah's.
(b) Events he remembers from Papa John's bedtime stories.
(c) Mystical creatures Tom does not recognize.
(d) Events he remembers from Savannah's childhood.

4. Who does Luke kill?
(a) Four railroad employees.
(b) Four FBI agents.
(c) Tom.
(d) Two green berets.

5. Who takes a stand for Benji before the football game against North Charleston?
(a) Tom.
(b) Luke.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Savannah.

6. What event in Tom's life occurs in 1971?
(a) Henry is imprisoned.
(b) Luke is arrested.
(c) Savannah is sent to Bellevue.
(d) Jennifer is born.

7. Why do Tom and Savannah get in a fight near the end of Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Tom refuses to give a nickel to a man begging for change.
(b) Tom makes fun of Grandpa Wingo praying.
(c) Tom says the word "nigger."
(d) Tom steals her journal.

8. What does Tom recall Savannah used to do with special gifts?
(a) She used to bury them in the backyard.
(b) She used to sell them to strangers.
(c) She used to take them with her wherever she went.
(d) She used to hide them.

9. After Tom confronts her in Chapter Twenty, what does Susan then accuse Tom of doing?
(a) Not being honest with Susan about his attraction to her.
(b) Not telling her everything he could about Savannah.
(c) Not giving Susan all the details of his wife's affair.
(d) Not allowing Bernard to be the boy he wants to be.

10. Where has "The Amberjack" gone after making its capture?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Florida.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New York City.

11. Tom tells Susan that the story of The Southern Way was true except ________________.
(a) The ghastly dogs never left them alone.
(b) The nightmares did not have a happy ending.
(c) The children had no magic.
(d) Their mother was not as brutal as the story depicts.

12. The Amberjack has arrived to capture _____________.
(a) Amos' flying squirrel.
(b) Henry's tiger.
(c) Snow.
(d) Ruby's wildcat.

13. Why does Tom call Sallie?
(a) To tell her that he wants her to be his wife.
(b) All of these.
(c) To tell her that he still loves her.
(d) To warn her that Lila may be calling.

14. Why is Henry in jail?
(a) He beats Lila.
(b) He tries to kill Luke.
(c) He tries to make money by smuggling drugs.
(d) He fires a gun at a soldier.

15. What is the name of the albino porpoise in Colleton?
(a) Ginger.
(b) Susan.
(c) Snow.
(d) Snowflake.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Susan expresses her desire for Tom at the end of Chapter Fifteen, how does the evening end for these two characters?

2. Which character challenges Tom to a fight after school?

3. What does Tom tell Lila he has decided to tell Dr. Lowenstein?

4. Who stays in Colleton with Luke?

5. What does Tom read to better understand Savannah's psychosis?

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