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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. What wakes Jessie in "Chapter 1"?
(a) Her mother's yelling.
(b) Someone shaking her.
(c) The sun.
(d) A loud noise outside.

2. In Chapter 2, what is Hannah most worried about?
(a) Eating.
(b) Chores.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Getting dressed.

3. How does Jessie decide where to walk in Chapter 10?
(a) She follows a group of students.
(b) She follows a school bus.
(c) She follows exit signs.
(d) She follows a row of trees.

4. What do visitors do with the haunted trees?
(a) They chop them down.
(b) They can record video from behind them.
(c) They climb them.
(d) They stand inside them.

5. What does Jessie's mom say her other children could sleep through?
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) An alarm.
(d) A tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how does Jessie get to look back at life in Clifton?

2. Why do the middle school visitors to Clifton make fun of Clifton's school?

3. What is Jessie's mother's role in the village?

4. Why does Jessie say people waited until night to get sick in her village?

5. Who turns on the lights while Jessie is escaping Clifton?

Short Essay Questions

1. After watching Clifton from the outside point of view, what does Jessie think of people in 1996?

2. What does Ma reveal to Jessie about Clifton?

3. What does Jessie do after leaving the bathroom in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter 8, how does Jessie almost give away her true identity?

5. Why does Ma tell Jessie to find Mr. Neely?

6. How does Jessie escape from Clifton?

7. In Chapter 1, how does Jessie describe a visit to Dr. Fister?

8. When Jessie sees the Clifton school house from the outside in Chapter 9, what happens?

9. What does Ma give Jessie before she leaves Clifton?

10. What is strange about bathrooms to Jessie after she leaves Clifton?

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