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

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

3. What does Evie's mother do when she waves at her mother in Chapter 3?
(a) Asks her to get some more chips for her.
(b) Runs to hug her.
(c) Gives her some money.
(d) Ignores her completely.

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

5. What was the only meal the teenagers were forced to attend with the parents?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Lunch.
(c) Brunch.
(d) Dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the teenagers goes up on the roof to try to repair the weatherproofing there?

2. Who is a germaphobe among the teenagers?

3. How long after the rain stopped did it take for the flood waters to begin to recede?

4. Where are James and his friends going after they leave the delta?

5. Who figures out who Eve's mother is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

7. Why does Evie not participate in driving the tick-ridden deer from the yard?

8. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

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

10. What was a liability in the parent game?

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