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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do her parents tel Vicky they appreciate?
(a) Her giving up her job to help them.
(b) The way she is always willing to cook and clean up.
(c) That she looks out for her younger sister.
(d) The poetry and plays she writes.

2. What book does Vicky's grandfather bring out to help settle an argument?
(a) The Prophet.
(b) The Little Prince.
(c) Messengers of God.
(d) The Rubaiyat.

3. How does Vicky's grandfather act as he talks about life after death?
(a) Sad.
(b) He preaches hellfire and damnation.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Unsure.

4. What is Ynid about to do?
(a) Take a voyage to the Anarctic region.
(b) Go back to Germany.
(c) Give birth.
(d) Be weaned from her mother.

5. What does Mrs. Rodney say she can do for Grandfather?
(a) Show him how to care for his blood catheter.
(b) Administer transfusions.
(c) Give him bed baths.
(d) Give him injections for pain.

6. What does John wonder aloud?
(a) If Zachary will be more considerate this summer.
(b) When Zachary had arrived.
(c) If Zachary has matured any over the school year.
(d) When Zachary will be leaving.

7. Who is at Vicky's house when she gets home?
(a) Zachary Gray.
(b) Her youngest sister.
(c) Her oldest sister.
(d) No one.

8. What do dolphins not do alone?
(a) Leave a pod.
(b) Feed.
(c) Give birth.
(d) Attack a shark.

9. What creature catches Vicky's eye while her grandfather is officiating?
(a) A hummingbird.
(b) A bee.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A locust.

10. What does Vicky's grandfather start to call her that he used to call his daughter?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Little Bit.
(c) Victoria.
(d) Pumpkin.

11. What pleases Adam about Basil's encounter with Vicky?
(a) Basil is gentle.
(b) Basil talks a lot.
(c) Basil seems amused.
(d) They bond.

12. What changes the way Vicky feels about Adam?
(a) Meeing Basil.
(b) Uni's interaction with Adam.
(c) Seeing Suzy interact with Adam.
(d) Talking to John about Adam.

13. Who seems to be missing when Vicky wakes in the middle of the night?
(a) Rob.
(b) No one.
(c) John.
(d) Her mother.

14. Who is Commander Rodney?
(a) Vicky's grandfather.
(b) A family friend of Vicky's family.
(c) Vicky's father.
(d) Vicky's great-uncle.

15. What does Vicky write and show her grandfather?
(a) A rondel.
(b) A story about a lost young man.
(c) A one-act play.
(d) An epic poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Basil?

2. What is Vicky used to doing during the summer?

3. What does the family do during breakfast?

4. What does Vicky sense about Basil?

5. What worries Vicky and her siblings about the swallows?

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