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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Geoff when the story opens?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) At a swim meet.
(c) Away at college.
(d) In the Army.

2. How long has Ellie known Liz?
(a) One day.
(b) Her whole life.
(c) About a year.
(d) Several weeks.

3. Where does Will's father work now?
(a) The Naval Academy.
(b) The Pentagon.
(c) Frodor's Publishing.
(d) The New York Times.

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

5. What does Ellie think of the majority of the kids at school?
(a) They are weird.
(b) They are snobs.
(c) They are boring.
(d) They are nice.

6. What does Liz say makes Ellie part of the in crowd?
(a) Making the track team.
(b) Being paired with Lance in lit class.
(c) Living where she lives.
(d) Being invited to Will's pool party.

7. Will pulls Ellie to the __________to talk to her.
(a) Library.
(b) Pool room.
(c) Widow's walk.
(d) Basement family room.

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

9. What does Ellie remember as she is about to leave Will's party?
(a) She needs to tell Lance about Mr. Morton.
(b) She forgot her purse.
(c) She left her sneakers by the pool.
(d) She needs to thank Will's father and step mother.

10. Why is Will's father disappointed in Will?
(a) Will wants to travel for a year before college.
(b) Will wants to join the Coast Guard.
(c) Will does not want to be in the military.
(d) Will does not want to accept a Harvard scholarship.

11. What is Lance doing when Ellie finds him?
(a) Arguing with Marco.
(b) Arm wrestling with Will.
(c) Making out with Jennifer.
(d) Talking to Will's father about the game.

12. What is one thing Ellie enjoys doing?
(a) Talking on the phone.
(b) Drifting in the pool.
(c) Researching antiques for her father.
(d) Creating cryptograms.

13. What does Ellie see at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) A man.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) The fox.
(d) A gopher turtle.

14. What does Ellie's mother invite Will to do?
(a) Talk to Ellie's father about the upcoming football game.
(b) Go with them to deliver some food.
(c) Stay for a swim before he and Ellie go out to eat.
(d) Stay for a swim and dinner.

15. How does Ellie interpret all of Will's friendly gestures?
(a) As flirting.
(b) As nervousness.
(c) He is not that friendly to her.
(d) As friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem is Ellie assigned to write a report on for class?

2. Who is Cavalier?

3. Who does Ellie think is nice?

4. What poem does Ellie trade with someone else so she does not have to do the one assigned her?

5. What is Will's father rumored to have done?

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