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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Will say he just ends up sometimes?
(a) In magical places.
(b) At the basketball court.
(c) At beautiful girls' houses.
(d) In the ravine.

2. What kind of songs has Will been listening to in the ravine?
(a) Troubadour music.
(b) Country.
(c) Classical.
(d) Rock.

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

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

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

6. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?
(a) A book that had been in Ellie's family for generations.
(b) A rare antique humidor.
(c) One of the first anagrams ever discovered from ancient Greece.
(d) The sword Ellie's father is writing about.

7. Why is Ellie chatting with Liz after school?
(a) Ellie and Liz are chatting after track team practice.
(b) Ellie notices that Liz seems to have few friends.
(c) Ellie's mother is late picking her up.
(d) Liz asks Ellie about her last school.

8. Liz and Stacy think Ellie should try to date ____________.
(a) Will.
(b) Lance.
(c) Marco.
(d) Anyone but Lance.

9. What does Ellie's mother quote at dinner?
(a) "The Lady of Shalott."
(b) "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
(c) "The Raven."
(d) "Daffodils."

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

11. 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.

12. Who smiles at Ellie as she is walking down the hall?
(a) A guy she saw in the principal's office when she enrolled.
(b) The captain of the football team.
(c) A guy she meet in biology class.
(d) One of the guys she saw in the woods.

13. What poem is Ellie assigned to write a report on for class?
(a) "The Wasteland."
(b) "Sonnet 14."
(c) "Beowulf."
(d) "How Do I Love Thee."

14. What does Will say about Ellie making the track team?
(a) Ellie needs to watch her back with Liz.
(b) Ellie made the team because of her looks.
(c) Ellie needs to watch her back with Stacy.
(d) Ellie will be a real asset to them.

15. Ellie debated telling Will about __________.
(a) Jennifer and Marco.
(b) A rumor.
(c) A poetry assingment.
(d) Jennifer and Lance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will confide to Ellie?

2. What does Ellie do in anticipation of attending the game and party at Will's house?

3. Why does Ellie read up on Camelot?

4. Where are Ellie and her parents living at the opening of the story?

5. Whom does Ellie notice arguing?

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