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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 game does Matt offer to play in Chapter 3?
(a) Hide-and-seek.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Red Rover.

2. What does Frank do in his partnership with Matt?
(a) Paperwork.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Selling.
(d) Buying.

3. What does the intruder take from Lizabeth's front yard?
(a) The mailbox.
(b) A tarp.
(c) The motorcycle.
(d) A gnome.

4. What does Elise cook for dinner in Chapter 2?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Fried chicken.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Steak.

5. What awakens Lizabeth after the dinner at which Jason spills his milk?
(a) A barking dog.
(b) Someone repeatedly honking the horn.
(c) Someone throwing pebbles at the window.
(d) It isn't specified in the text.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the cat at Lizabeth's house?

2. What song is Lizabeth singing in Chapter 1?

3. What does Lizabeth's aunt feed the children for lunch?

4. What is the name of the man who inappropriately gropes Lizabeth in her first days at the job site?

5. What kind of doughnut does Lizabeth eat in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Matt's house and the condition it is in when Lizabeth is first brought there.

2. What happens when Lizabeth thinks she hears the flasher throwing stones against her window the morning after her first sighting of him?

3. When Lizabeth is awakened in the middle of the night by pebbles being thrown against her window, what does she imagine it to be?

4. Aunt Elsie is determined to stay up and see the "pervert." Is her (im)patience rewarded? How does she react to his appearance?

5. Why might the author have moved Matt and Lizabeth so quickly to a kissing scene?

6. What appears to be Matt's motivation for hiring Lizabeth to do construction work? Is she good at it?

7. During a particularly bad rainstorm, Matt convinces Lizabeth to dance like a fairy on a board positioned above a mud puddle. How does Lizabeth feel about this rain dance, and what does it symbolize to her?

8. Do you believe novels from this genre in general express a cavalier attitude toward premarital sex? How does "Smitten" fit into this genre in this respect?

9. Matt and Lizabeth discuss the flasher and his MO after his second appearance. As they try to figure out who he is, they come up with a couple hypotheses. What do they surmise about the flasher during this discussion?

10. In an effort to find out who the flasher is, Matt and Lizabeth devise a plan to expose him. What does their plan entail?

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