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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 Shel do when he does not want to leave the treehouse?
(a) Scream.
(b) Handcuff himself to the tree.
(c) Kick violently.
(d) Jump down from a height of about 12 feet.

2. What are the parents doing when the teenagers get back from the delta?
(a) Swimming in the lake.
(b) Running races in the motorboats.
(c) Preparing for the big storm.
(d) Off on vacation somewhere else.

3. Who is on the small raft that gets snagged in a clump of reeds in the cove of the lake?
(a) Burl.
(b) Gnarles.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Frank.

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

5. Who is Evie's favorite person?
(a) Juicy.
(b) Jack.
(c) Shel.
(d) Ricky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burl do for a living?

2. Why do the parents say they can not leave the great house in Chapter 4?

3. What does Terry ask the parents not to do in Chapter 1?

4. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?

5. Where does Evie say they once lived early in Chapter 1?

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

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

5. What was a liability in the parent game?

6. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?

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

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

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

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

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