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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the teenagers most often feel when spying on the parents having sex?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Affection.
(c) Repugnance.
(d) Gratitude.

2. Where is the only doctor in the house when Amy's injury becomes known to the parents?
(a) Taking a nap upstairs in the house.
(b) Out shopping for supplies.
(c) Back in Brooklyn, having left the vacation early.
(d) Swimming in the lake.

3. What is Jack's favorite book?
(a) George and Martha One Find Day.
(b) Green Eggs and Ham.
(c) Fresh One.
(d) Persnickety Willow.

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

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

6. What does Eve do because she is afraid of Jack being around all the water after the storm?
(a) Makes him promise her never to go near the water.
(b) Makes him wear water wings.
(c) Makes him stay in the attic for the first week after the storm.
(d) Makes him and Shel wear lifejackets.

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

8. What does Low tell the other teenagers he heard up at the great house when they went for food?
(a) Their parents have all lost their jobs.
(b) There is a bad storm on the way.
(c) They are going to leave the house early.
(d) There is no more gas in the tank of the boats.

9. What do the teenagers do with one mother's lipstick?
(a) Put it on the dog.
(b) Throw it in the lake.
(c) Steal it for themselves.
(d) Give it to another mother as a present.

10. Where are James and his friends going after they leave the delta?
(a) Cape Fear.
(b) Cape May.
(c) Newport.
(d) Cape Cod.

11. 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.

12. What does Shel do when he does not want to leave the treehouse?
(a) Kick violently.
(b) Handcuff himself to the tree.
(c) Scream.
(d) Jump down from a height of about 12 feet.

13. Who is Terry's mother?
(a) A gym teacher.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A gynecologist.
(d) An artist.

14. What does Jack think God is a codeword for in the Bible?
(a) Trickery.
(b) Magic.
(c) Nature.
(d) Love.

15. What do the parents do when they realize the teenagers are leaving the great house all together?
(a) Run after the cars.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Threaten Burl with prosecution.
(d) Throw bottles at the teenagers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does one of the other mothers give to Jack?

2. What is one of the things the teenagers respect in Chapter 1?

3. Where does Evie say they once lived early in Chapter 1?

4. What does Evie tell Jack in Chapter 2 that is upsetting for them both?

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

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