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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Brown read to the class?
(a) Part of his own novel.
(b) A poem Helen wrote.
(c) The homework James wrote.
(d) A news article about ghosts.

2. How does James think Helen will feel when Helen gets a body?
(a) It will be odd, but she will get used to it.
(b) It's frightening at first but gets better.
(c) Content.
(d) He says she will love being in flesh again.

3. What does Helen do that impresses James?
(a) She can heal others.
(b) She calms a mean soul.
(c) She passes through objects easily.
(d) She can write beautiful poems.

4. What reservation does Helen have regarding taking a body?
(a) She is worried about dealing with past lives.
(b) She is concerned about losing her own identity.
(c) She doesn't know how to do it.
(d) She is worried about how it will look.

5. Where do Helen and James go to work together?
(a) Mr. Brown's house.
(b) The back of the classroom.
(c) The library.
(d) The phone booth.

6. How does James feel when Helen touches him?
(a) He doesn't feel anything.
(b) He thinks it's wonderful.
(c) He is frightened.
(d) He is repulsed.

7. Where does James go when he is out?
(a) The movie theater.
(b) To the graveyard.
(c) To a restaurant.
(d) The school.

8. How does Helen feel about cleaving to the woman by the store?
(a) She is completely ready.
(b) She is excited.
(c) She decides not to do it.
(d) She is nervous.

9. What happened when James saw Billy's spirit?
(a) He never saw the spirit.
(b) It didn't speak to him.
(c) It lashed out at him.
(d) It ignored him.

10. Who is the ghost cleaving to as this story begins?
(a) James.
(b) A poet.
(c) A playwright.
(d) Mr. Brown.

11. Who is Helen's new host after she leaves Mr. Brown?
(a) Mr. Brown's wife.
(b) Billy.
(c) A playwright.
(d) James.

12. What does the spirit do with the students' papers?
(a) She tears them up randomly.
(b) She makes them fly around the room.
(c) She gathers them overnight and stacks them alphabetically.
(d) She makes invisible notes on them.

13. What does James propose that Helen consider?
(a) Going back to her grave.
(b) Finding another host.
(c) Taking over someone else's body.
(d) Showing herself to the humans.

14. What does Helen whisper, instructing Mr. Brown to do?
(a) Stop writing.
(b) Leave the room.
(c) Follow James.
(d) Keep writing.

15. What does James find in the car?
(a) Money.
(b) An envelope.
(c) A ring.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scares Helen about taking over a body?

2. What does Helen feel in the woman she tries to cleave to?

3. What happens when the ghost speaks to the boy?

4. How does Helen help James when the police come after the car?

5. What rule did Helen break?

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