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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Codi and Hallie get home after the storm, what do they want to know?
(a) Why their father brought them back.
(b) Why they could not stay in the arroyo.
(c) Where their mother is.
(d) If animals go to heaven.

2. To which Native American tribe does the father of Codi's baby belong?
(a) Chippewa.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Iroquois.
(d) Apache.

3. Where does Codi bring her students in Chapter 11?
(a) To a morgue.
(b) To a hospital.
(c) To the zoo.
(d) To the river.

4. Where did the narrator and her lover meet?
(a) On vacation.
(b) At a bar.
(c) Through a mutual friend.
(d) Medical school.

5. Hallie is working with farmers who are being destroyed by what group?
(a) The Manzanas.
(b) The Contras.
(c) The Maracas.
(d) The Policia.

6. What are Codi and Hallie trying to do during the storm in Chapter 3?
(a) Find their mother.
(b) Save their friend.
(c) Get away from someone who is following them.
(d) Save coyote pups.

7. What is the relationship between Homer Noline and Codi and Hallie?
(a) He is their grandfather.
(b) He is their uncle.
(c) He is their father.
(d) He is their brother.

8. Where is Homer's family from originally?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Grace.
(c) Nicaragua.
(d) Tucson.

9. How long has the narrator been away from the town where she grew up?
(a) Eight years.
(b) Twenty-seven years.
(c) Fourteen years.
(d) Three years.

10. Where do Codi and Hallie sleep?
(a) Together in one bed.
(b) In their parents' bed.
(c) Together on the floor.
(d) In their own beds.

11. The narrator is leaving in Chapter 2 to go where?
(a) Grace.
(b) Nicaragua.
(c) Honduras.
(d) Tucson.

12. What is the name of Codi and Hallie's mother?
(a) Alice.
(b) Allison.
(c) Amy.
(d) Abigail.

13. How do Codi and Hallie see their father?
(a) As a loving, sympathetic confidante.
(b) As a tyrannical disciplinarian.
(c) As a remote, aloof caretaker.
(d) As a workaholic.

14. What do the mine owners plan to do to the river?
(a) Dump toxic waste into it.
(b) Try to pan ore from it.
(c) Divert it away from the orchards.
(d) Stock it with fish.

15. In what subject does Codi have a degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Education.
(c) Environmental science.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Homer call for help rescuing Codi and Hallie?

2. Codi's father came to Grace from what state?

3. When Codi and Hallie were children, who used to babysit them?

4. How much does Codi think her father knows about her situation?

5. Why has the Black Mountain mine been poisoning the river with sulfuric acid?

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