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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dicey's ______________ dies, Jeff understands and he knows to leave her alone.
(a) Brother
(b) Father
(c) Mother
(d) Sister

2. Whose car does Jeff see when he is coming home ten days before school lets out?
(a) Andy's
(b) Max's
(c) Dicey's
(d) The Professor's

3. That summer, Jeff decides to set up a _____________ business with the Tillermans.
(a) Boating
(b) Bar
(c) Crabbing
(d) Restaurant

4. Jeff tells the Professor that Melody had said she would have taken him with her had Jeff been _____________.
(a) A baby
(b) Not like his father
(c) An older man
(d) A girl

5. What is Jeff on again during his sophomore year of high school, though he would never have thought it to be the case?
(a) Advanced students list
(b) Detention list
(c) Honor roll
(d) Academic probation

6. ___________ doesn't tell anyone how he feels as he doesn't think he deserves comfort or sympathy.
(a) Jeff
(b) James
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) The Professor

7. Where do Jeff and the Professor decide to talk when they are ready to talk?
(a) A coffee shop
(b) Diner
(c) The basement
(d) Kitchen table

8. Melody says that she couldn't be happy knowing about the situation in ___________ and doing nothing.
(a) His heart
(b) Columbia
(c) The Professor's life
(d) Max's life

9. James tells Jeff that Dicey knows how to __________ and did it frequently on their trip after their mother was put in the hospital.
(a) Be angry
(b) Run away
(c) Cry
(d) Lie

10. When Dicey becomes angry with Jeff, he begins to feel the same way he felt when ____________ was angry with him.
(a) Melody
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Gambo
(d) The Professor

11. Jeff realizes that Melody and his principal at the University School tried to make him believe he wasn't ______________.
(a) A hard worker
(b) Intelligent
(c) Friendly
(d) Dumb

12. Jeff realizes he would really treasure the ________________ as a connection to the past.
(a) Stocks
(b) Engagement ring
(c) Jade ring
(d) Picture

13. The lawyer that is coming to visit the Professor and Jeff is the lawyer of ______________.
(a) Gambo
(b) Miss Opal
(c) Max
(d) Melody

14. Jeff realizes that Dicey is as private and solitary in her grief as _____________.
(a) He is
(b) Melody
(c) Brother Thomas
(d) The Professor

15. As the spring comes, Jeff prepares the _____________ and begins to see the herons again.
(a) Guitar
(b) Suitcase
(c) Car
(d) Boat

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason for Dicey's anger, which quickly passes once she realizes what is happening?

2. What is the name of Dicey's brother, who Jeff meets when he is spending more time with Dicey?

3. Jeff has emotionally gone inside of himself, to a small ______ where he locked the memories of his day and night spent on the beach.

4. Jeff realizes that the only thing the Professor wants for him is for Jeff to be ______________.

5. What does Jeff begin to do as a result of running away from his school work?

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