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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time does Oliver think the most efficient course of action to find his wife and daughter will require?
(a) A month.
(b) A week.
(c) Six months.
(d) A year.

2. After a bi-plane flies overhead, what does Oliver reason?
(a) Jane and Rebecca will not return to the crash site.
(b) Jane and Rebecca have already left the country by plane.
(c) Jane and Rebecca will rent a plane.
(d) Jane and Rebecca will revisit the plane crash site in Iowa on the way to Massachusetts.

3. Jane describes the mutual disgust between who?
(a) Jane and Sam.
(b) The college-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech students.
(c) The college-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech college-bound students.
(d) The technical school-bound children of Newton and the Minuteman Tech college-bound students.

4. On July 15, 1990, Jane takes Rebecca to a YMCA to swim in what city?
(a) Indianapolis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Terre Haute.

5. Sam, Hadley and Joley's rule is that the one who does what gets out of paying the tab?
(a) Tells the stupidest joke.
(b) Performs a stupid stunt.
(c) Flirts with the waitress.
(d) Dances on the table.

6. What happens when Sam follows Jane to apologize?
(a) They continue to argue.
(b) They shake hands in a truce.
(c) They fight.
(d) They ignore each other.

7. How old are Sam and Hadley?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Twenty-five.

8. How does Mother try to help Joley sleep?
(a) She gives him sleeping pills.
(b) She sings him a lullabye.
(c) She buys him a television to watch.
(d) She buys Joley a machine that plays water sounds.

9. Why does Oliver believe that he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley?
(a) Joley will call the police.
(b) Joley will poison them against him.
(c) Joley will kidnap them.
(d) Joley will refuse to let them go back to him.

10. In his second letter to Jane, about what does Joley write?
(a) His memories of their trip last summer.
(b) His memories of when he and Jane were teenagers.
(c) His memories of school.
(d) His memories when he was nine and Jane was thirteen and he would sneak into her room at night while their parents fought.

11. With what was Sam fascinated when he was a child?
(a) His mother's broken gramophone.
(b) His sister's broken gramophone.
(c) His brother's broken gramophone.
(d) His father's broken gramophone.

12. How long do Jane and Oliver date before they make love?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Four years.

13. Why does Sam react rudely, driving Jane from the table?
(a) He finds her unattractive and annoying.
(b) He is in a bad mood.
(c) He does not like her.
(d) He holds a grudge against Newton girls like Jane.

14. When Tall Neck sells a convertible MG to Jane, of what is he unaware?
(a) It is stolen.
(b) It is not running well.
(c) It is brand new.
(d) He has left a manila envelope with $600 in the MG.

15. What does Jane do when she spots Joley?
(a) She runs to him.
(b) She waves at him.
(c) She walks over to him.
(d) She runs the other way.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his instructions for the next leg of the journey, where does Joley direct Jane?

2. Why does Emily invite Sam to a party?

3. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

4. Where does the boy say the woman and teen girl are headed?

5. On July 25, 1990, fifteen-year-old Rebecca is hitchhiking to Hadley's mother's home alone on a rainy night with whom?

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