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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Luke feel about the new houses being built next to his home?
(a) He is sad.
(b) He loves them.
(c) He hates them.
(d) He is frustrated.

2. What is Luke's favorite part of his day?
(a) In the morning when he can watch the new houses.
(b) When his dad comes home for lunch.
(c) When his brothers come to play checkers with him.
(d) When his mother comes up to tuck him into bed.

3. What does Luke beg his mother to convince his dad of in Chapter 9?
(a) Allowing Luke outside.
(b) Allowing Luke to look out the windows.
(c) Allowing Luke back in the kitchen.
(d) Allowing Luke to listen to the radio.

4. What time of the day is it when Luke sees the blinds flip up and down quickly in an upstairs window of one of the new houses?
(a) 11 PM.
(b) 10 PM.
(c) 10 AM.
(d) 11 AM.

5. What do Luke's parents tell him that the Government forced them to sell?
(a) Their cabin by the lake.
(b) Their car.
(c) Their house.
(d) The woods next to their house.

6. What does Luke listen to while standing in the woods in Chapter 1?
(a) The birds chirping.
(b) The creek rushing by.
(c) The sound of twigs breaking.
(d) The sound of falling trees in the distance.

7. What does Jen do when Luke asks her questions about that day he saw her?
(a) She slaps his face.
(b) She answers him.
(c) She laughs at him.
(d) She waves the questions away.

8. How much more money is the tax bill from previous years?
(a) Three times the usual amount.
(b) Two times the usual amount.
(c) Five times the usual amount.
(d) Four times the usual amount.

9. What can Luke not stop thinking about, so much so that he can't even concentrate on playing with his favorite toy?
(a) The new girl down the road.
(b) His father.
(c) The outdoors.
(d) His mother.

10. After Luke tells Jen how he found out about her, what is Jen stunned to hear about Luke?
(a) That he has never left his own property and he has been trapped in his house for months.
(b) That his dad yelled at him for cleaning the house and baking bread.
(c) That his parents make him eat breakfast on the stairs.
(d) That his brothers tease him about being a third child.

11. What makes Luke decide he must act now if he wants to sneak over to the third child's house?
(a) His parents are thinking about locking him in his room all day.
(b) Cops are beginning to scrutinize the area.
(c) Lots of the trees are being cut down.
(d) The trees are beginning to lose their leaves.

12. What does Luke yell out in a panic to the girl whose house he has just broke into?
(a) "Population Police!"
(b) "Please don't hurt me!"
(c) "I'll get you!"
(d) "Let me go!"

13. Why doesn't Luke tell his mother about what he has found in his room allowing him to look outside?
(a) He fears they will forbid him from using it anymore.
(b) He doesn't want to get in trouble.
(c) He wants it to be his secret.
(d) He knows they will cover it up.

14. What do Matthew and Mark do while Mom is at work and Dad is fixing the machinery?
(a) Harvest the fields.
(b) They are in school.
(c) Take care of the animals and yard.
(d) Plow the fields.

15. What does Luke's Dad slip quietly to Luke every day around noon?
(a) Some vegetables.
(b) Two sandwiches.
(c) Soup.
(d) A couple cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had bet Jen that she didn't know what the weather was like outside?

2. What are some of the orders Luke recalls the Government giving his family in the past?

3. Who did Luke's Mother hide her pregnancy from?

4. What does Mark offer to play a game of with Luke to cheer him up after barging into his room?

5. Why has Luke been banned from using the telephone?

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