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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.
(b) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.
(c) If that might be brier rabbit.
(d) How the man got down there without a machete.

2. What does Ellie leave the bleachers to do?
(a) To find the restroom.
(b) To find a quiet place to call her mother.
(c) To look for Liz.
(d) To buy hot dogs.

3. What does Ellie do in anticipation of attending the game and party at Will's house?
(a) Has her hair permed.
(b) Tries to dress glamorously.
(c) Buys a new pair of jeans.
(d) Has her hair streaked.

4. What does Marco invite Ellie to do the next day?
(a) Go to a horse show.
(b) Go to a polo game.
(c) Go sailing with them.
(d) Go swimming.

5. How does Will answer Ellie's question?
(a) He is home schooled.
(b) He does not want to talk about Jennifer.
(c) He came over because Ellie intrigues him.
(d) He lives in the country about five miles out of town.

6. What does the Order of the Bear believe?
(a) Arthur will come back to life.
(b) Arthur will reincarnate and look for Guinevere.
(c) Arthur's killer will return to commit another murder.
(d) Lancelot will someday be vindicated.

7. What poem does Ellie trade with someone else so she does not have to do the one assigned her?
(a) "Sonnet 46."
(b) "The Lady of Shalot."
(c) "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
(d) "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock."

8. To what did Admiral Wagner supposedly have his friend assigned?
(a) A backwater naval base in Alaska.
(b) An assignment on a battle cruiser.
(c) A cushy job at the Pentagon.
(d) A dangerous war zone.

9. What does Ellie talk Liz and Stacy into doing after the game?
(a) Going out for pizza.
(b) Going to Will's pool party.
(c) Spending the night at her house that night.
(d) Going to a late-night matinee at the movies.

10. Who does Ellie think is nice?
(a) Will's father but not his step-mother.
(b) Will's younger sister.
(c) Will's step-mother but not his father.
(d) Will's father and step-mother.

11. Where does the group go sailing the next day?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Annapolis.
(c) Norfolk.
(d) Baltimore.

12. Why has Will moved a lot in his childhood?
(a) His father is a travel guide writer.
(b) His mother loves to go to new places.
(c) His father is in the military.
(d) His mother is in the military.

13. Why is Ellie running with her father in the woods?
(a) They are chasing their Boston terrier.
(b) She is supporting his exercise routine.
(c) They are chasing a fox.
(d) They are trying to catch up to the neighborhood people in the run program.

14. Who is Nancy?
(a) Ellie's older sister.
(b) Ellie's aunt.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) Ellie's best friend.

15. Why does Mr. Morton yell at Ellie?
(a) She traded off the Beowulf poem.
(b) She refuses to give the poetry report.
(c) She squirts ketchup on him.
(d) She accidentally bumps into him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie observe about Marco?

2. Why does Ellie decide to go for a run when she gets home from school?

3. What does Ellie feel as she is running?

4. What kind of songs has Will been listening to in the ravine?

5. About what is Ellie's father writing a book?

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