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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Jack and Shel doing when Evie finds them in Chapter 3?
(a) Trapping animals in order to "save" them.
(b) Watching a movie.
(c) Writing a book.
(d) Swimming.

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

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

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

5. What had been added to the treehouses by previous visitors to the house?
(a) Watercolors.
(b) Radios.
(c) Drawings, names, initials, and etchings.
(d) Metal roofing.

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

7. How does Evie describe Val?
(a) As a great athlete.
(b) As a poor artist.
(c) As a tomboy who does not say much.
(d) As a witty wordsmith.

8. Where do Evie and Jack live when they are not renting the great house?
(a) Brentwood.
(b) Inwood.
(c) Greenpoint.
(d) Chicago.

9. What does Burl see that leads him to warn the teenagers it is best to leave the great house?
(a) Herds of deer.
(b) Vultures.
(c) Swarms of mosquitos.
(d) Many dead fish.

10. Why do the parents say they can not leave the great house in Chapter 4?
(a) They have to wait for the house's owner to return their calls.
(b) They have nowhere else to go.
(c) They can not drive under the influence.
(d) They need to repair the storm damage or they will not get their deposit back.

11. What do the teenagers call the weed that James offers them?
(a) The God.
(b) The Oracle.
(c) The Solution.
(d) The Answer.

12. Which of the teenagers goes up on the roof to try to repair the weatherproofing there?
(a) Juicy.
(b) Val.
(c) Terry.
(d) Eve.

13. What does James ask the teenagers that they are confused about in Chapter 2?
(a) Whether their families have 401ks.
(b) Whether their families have a compound.
(c) Whether they are applying to Ivy League schools.
(d) Whether they have to go to school full-time.

14. What do Evie and the other teenagers put into a hat in Chapter 1?
(a) Money.
(b) Anonymous descriptions of their parents' careers.
(c) Straws.
(d) Flowers.

15. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?
(a) Rickey.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Alycia.
(d) Pam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Evie's favorite person?

2. What does Eve decide to do while the parents are distracted in Chapter 3?

3. How do Alycia's parents convince her to finally head for home with them?

4. Which teenage boy do some of Evie's friends seem to like in Chapter 2?

5. What does Kay do to Amy in Chapter 3?

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