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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 Vicky leave out in her stories to Rob about her visit to the marine lab?
(a) About Adam asking her out.
(b) About swimming out to meet Basil.
(c) About John's encounter with Uni.
(d) About Adam dancing on the beach.

2. What do some of the people wonder about Zachary?
(a) If he changed as a result of his father dying.
(b) If he was the young man Commander Rodney was trying to save.
(c) If he changed as a result of his mother dying.
(d) If he was ever charged with disturbing the peace last summer.

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

4. About what does Vicki wonder concerning dolphins and being alone?
(a) How dolphins react to death.
(b) How dolpins react to one of their trainers leaving.
(c) Why dolphins are communal creatures.
(d) Nothing.

5. Of whom is Vicky a little jealous?
(a) No one.
(b) Suzy.
(c) John.
(d) Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vicky's grandfather say is the price of some people's resurrection?

2. What do Vicky and Adam talk about concerning John's work?

3. Where does Grandfather wonder if he should be?

4. What does Vicky not tell her siblings?

5. Who is Commander Rodney?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Grandfather doing and how does Vicky interact with him?

2. What does Adam tell Vicky when they go out for a swim on Sunday?

3. What do Vicky and her grandfather do after Vicky is done talking to Suzy?

4. What do Vicky's parents thank her for concerning Grandfather, and what do they encourage her to do?

5. What do Vicky and Adam talk about over breakfast?

6. Where does Vicky's family go for a picnic, and what does Vicky think about while they are there?

7. What does Vicky not tell her siblings about a request her parents make of her?

8. Why are Vicky's parents gone when she arrives back home?

9. Describe the experience Vicky has in the plane with Zachary the last time he rides with him.

10. What does Zachary's family do with his mother's body, and how does Vicky feel about what she hears?

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