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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Evie and her friends do with the pets in Chapter 1 to amuse themselves and the parents?
(a) Teach them new tricks like shaking and rolling over.
(b) Put them in a play.
(c) Teach them to swim.
(d) Put them in a canoe.

2. Who does Evie kiss during a game the teenagers play?
(a) Low.
(b) Terry.
(c) David.
(d) Juicy.

3. What does Terry ask the parents not to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Come into the teenagers' attic room.
(b) Go boating.
(c) Hug the teenagers.
(d) Drink so much.

4. Who figures out who Eve's mother is?
(a) David.
(b) Dee.
(c) Terry.
(d) Jen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?

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

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

4. What does Evie describe as the parents' hobby?

5. Why do some of the teenagers go back to the great house in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?

2. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?

3. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

4. What was a liability in the parent game?

5. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?

6. Why is Evie so alarmed to see what Kay does to Amy in Chapter 3?

7. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?

8. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?

9. What is the "magic hour" and how do the teenagers use it?

10. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

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