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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Alycia's parents convince her to finally head for home with them?
(a) By paying her.
(b) By giving her alcohol she asked for.
(c) By telling her she could move out next year.
(d) By giving her drugs she asked for.

2. What does Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?
(a) It is a toxic soup.
(b) It just keeps rising and rising.
(c) It is likely to have fires starting on it.
(d) It is likely to have large human-eating snakes in it.

3. Who is a germaphobe among the teenagers?
(a) Evie.
(b) David.
(c) Dee.
(d) Jen.

4. What is a liability in the parent game?
(a) Medical problems.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Younger siblings.
(d) Money.

5. Where does Evie finally find Jack as the storm preparations are happening?
(a) In the basement of the great house.
(b) In the attic of the great house.
(c) In the treehouses.
(d) In a muddy cove of the lake.

6. What are the parents doing when the teenagers get back from the delta?
(a) Off on vacation somewhere else.
(b) Swimming in the lake.
(c) Preparing for the big storm.
(d) Running races in the motorboats.

7. How does Evie find out the identity of Low's father?
(a) Low's father gives him his inhaltor.
(b) Low's father pulls him by the ear away from the water.
(c) Low's father gives him his EpiPen.
(d) Low's father berates him for not helping with the preparations.

8. Where do the teenagers decamp from the house to in Chapter 2?
(a) A neighboring state.
(b) A new house nearby.
(c) A camper.
(d) A delta.

9. What does Burl do for a living?
(a) He is a veterinarian.
(b) He is a groundskeeper.
(c) He is a lawyer.
(d) He is a dentist.

10. Where does Evie find Jen and Terry during the storm preparations?
(a) Making out in the greenhouse.
(b) Back on the delta.
(c) Fixing the boats to the shed.
(d) Hiding in the treehouses.

11. What does Evie do with Amy after Amy's injury?
(a) Picks her up and carries her into the house.
(b) Stitches her knee up.
(c) Stanches the blood flow with a rag.
(d) Pulls out the bee stingers.

12. What does Evie view the parents as in Chapter 1?
(a) Good examples.
(b) A cautionary tale.
(c) Icons of style.
(d) People who she might be able to like some day.

13. Whose house do the teenagers decide to eventually strike out for?
(a) Dee's.
(b) Juicy's.
(c) Jen's.
(d) Eve's.

14. What kinds of animals do the teenagers routinely chase from the lawn?
(a) Iguanas.
(b) Deer.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Bears.

15. Which animal does serious damage to its wire cage in Chapter 4?
(a) A snake.
(b) A fox.
(c) A skunk.
(d) A possum.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Evie refer to the house the parents have rented for the summer?

2. What do the teenagers call the weed that James offers them?

3. Who are the twins in the great house?

4. Who is Jen's younger brother?

5. What do the teenagers do with one mother's lipstick?

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