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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Helen help James when the police come after the car?
(a) She takes their car away.
(b) She distracts them.
(c) She sets their car on fire.
(d) She gets rid of what he finds.

2. What does Mr. Brown tell James?
(a) He has a nice house.
(b) He is on academic probation.
(c) He needs to pay attention better in class.
(d) His writing is good.

3. What does the boy do when the ghost moves to the back of the room?
(a) He gets up to join her.
(b) He turns to look at her.
(c) He tells the other students she is back there.
(d) Nothing.

4. What happens to James' memories when he takes over Billy's body?
(a) They don't come back right away.
(b) They flood back to him.
(c) They trickle back over the next day.
(d) He loses the few memories he already had.

5. Where do the boy and the ghost go to speak?
(a) The faculty lounge.
(b) A phone booth.
(c) A car.
(d) Nowhere. They can't speak together.

6. How does Helen feel about her host having a child?
(a) She is jealous.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is thrilled.
(d) It frightens her.

7. What does Helen do after she tells James about how she connected with her hosts?
(a) She sleeps.
(b) She hides.
(c) She cries.
(d) She looks at pictures in the house.

8. What are the two kinds of ghosts according to James?
(a) Those who need to find their past and those who need to learn their future.
(b) Old and new.
(c) Gentle and scary.
(d) Those who know they are dead and those who don't know.

9. Why is Helen attached to her particular host?
(a) He is connected to literature.
(b) He was the only one around.
(c) She wants to learn how to teach.
(d) She appreciates his kindness.

10. Who does the ghost cleave to at the party when her young host dies?
(a) No-one. She finds herself in heaven.
(b) A young woman who is a singer.
(c) No-one. She slips back to her grave.
(d) A poet.

11. How does Mr. Brown seem when he gets to the house James lives in?
(a) Curious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Puzzled.

12. What does the ghost remember about life after death?
(a) She remembers attending her own funeral.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is transported to a peaceful place.
(d) It's cold and smothering.

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

14. How does the girl act at home?
(a) She is always jumping around.
(b) Like a machine.
(c) Angry.
(d) Like a prude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when her host dies?

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

3. How does Helen react to James' suggestion?

4. Where does James go when he is out?

5. Why was Billy's body in rough shape?

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