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

2. What does Evie describe as the parents' hobby?
(a) Boating.
(b) Painting.
(c) Bicycling.
(d) Drinking.

3. Which teenage boy do some of Evie's friends seem to like in Chapter 2?
(a) John.
(b) James.
(c) Bennie.
(d) Reynolds.

4. Who is Jen's younger brother?
(a) Bennie.
(b) Shel.
(c) Jack.
(d) Rory.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells Alycia's parents exactly where she has gone in Chapter 3?

3. Who comes to the delta in Chapter 2 who has been missing from the great house?

4. What is Jack's favorite book?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evie feel about her younger brother Jack?

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

3. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?

4. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?

5. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?

6. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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