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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. How long after the rain stopped did it take for the flood waters to begin to recede?
(a) One week.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One month.

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

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

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

5. How does Alycia make it back to the great house?
(a) On foot.
(b) On the same yacht she left on.
(c) By seaplane.
(d) By regular airplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Terry's mother?

2. What was the only meal the teenagers were forced to attend with the parents?

3. Who goes missing right before the teenagers leave in Chapter 4?

4. What does Low tell the other teenagers he heard up at the great house when they went for food?

5. What does Evie do with Amy after Amy's injury?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?

2. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?

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

4. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?

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

6. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

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

8. Why is David feeling so guilty about sabotaging the yacht in Chapter 3?

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

10. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?

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