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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. How does Piper plan to make money from her school students?
(a) Tutor students who fall behind.
(b) Offer protection to victims of bullying.
(c) Sell secrets of Alcatraz.
(d) Have their laundry done at Alcatraz.

2. Why does Moose sleep in his clothes on his first night in his new home?
(a) His pajamas are all packed.
(b) He is cold.
(c) He is afraid of an attack.
(d) He is too tired to change.

3. How does Piper get her plan to go through at home?
(a) She gets her mom to help her.
(b) She works an extra shift in the laundry.
(c) She asks her father.
(d) She puts laundry on other bags.

4. Where do the inmates play ball?
(a) On the shore.
(b) In the entry hall.
(c) By the gates.
(d) In the cafeteria.

5. What is Mother always afraid Natalie will do in public?
(a) Run away.
(b) Throw up.
(c) Have a tantrum.
(d) Count things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Moose where to get a prison ball?

2. What stops Moose from thinking about what people wanted Mother to do with Natalie?

3. What does Natalie refuse to do when she gets to San Francisco for her new school?

4. Why does Mother lie about Natalie's age?

5. How old does Mother always say Natalie is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Natalie have to come home from school?

2. What does Moose think about Natalie's new school and why?

3. What does Natalie's therapist say about the box of buttons, and why?

4. What does Piper do when she first meets Moose?

5. What does Moose want to talk about while playing catch with his father, and how does his father react?

6. Why does Moose go to Alcatraz?

7. What frustrates Moose on his first morning in his new home, and why?

8. What is surprising to Moose about Annie?

9. What did most people tell Mother to do when Natalie first started having problems?

10. How does Natalie's family get her to school?

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