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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 type of animals are used to clear the road?
(a) Cows.
(b) Horses.
(c) Oxen.
(d) Mules.

2. What do Cassie and Catherine eventually decide to do regarding the phantom?
(a) Trap him.
(b) Give him food and a quilt.
(c) Turn him in.
(d) Shoot him.

3. What is Catherine's last name?
(a) Hall.
(b) Hanson.
(c) Harmon.
(d) Hallowell.

4. What has been taken from the Shipmans' storeroom?
(a) Pies.
(b) Grain.
(c) Shovel.
(d) Ladder.

5. Who wipes away Catherine's tears when she cries about the quilt?
(a) Mr. Hall.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Asa.
(d) Mrs. Shipman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Catherine live?

2. What are Mr. Hall's plans to marry Sophy?

3. How does Mr. Holt communicate his request to retain his position?

4. Catherine, Cassie and Asa wonder if the phantom has found _________________.

5. Why are Catherine and Cassie out of school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Catherine feel so much stress about helping the phantom?

2. How is Mrs. Hall remembered at a New Year's celebration?

3. What two instances of flashback are used in Chapter 8?

4. How does the author use a flashback to give a glimpse into the Halls' life before Mrs. Hall died?

5. How does Mr. Hall lose his temper when the question of his marrying Aunt Lucy arises?

6. How is Mr. Hall's crafting of a chair an element of foreshadowing for the story?

7. What spooky story does Mr. Hall tell that foreshadows events in the woods?

8. How does Mr. Holt's style of teaching put him in trouble with the townspeople?

9. How does the author use the metaphor of a growing infant to indicate the change in seasons?

10. What mystery takes place regarding Catherine's writing book?

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