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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Ellie's screen name?
(a) Ellyoop.
(b) Bearclaw.
(c) Bearlythere.
(d) Tiggertoo.

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

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

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

8. About what is Ellie's father writing a book?
(a) Antiques.
(b) A sword.
(c) Cryptograms.
(d) How to start your own business.

9. What does Ellie observe about Marco?
(a) He seems well liked.
(b) He seems surly.
(c) He seems shy.
(d) He seems like he is on drugs.

10. Why does Ellie read up on Camelot?
(a) Will mentions it.
(b) It's part of Ellie's World Literature class.
(c) Ellie's mother is writing a book on the subject.
(d) Medieval romance intrigues Ellie.

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

12. Whom does Ellie notice arguing?
(a) Her father and another man Ellie does not know.
(b) Her father and Geoff.
(c) Geoff and his girlfriend.
(d) The three young people in the trail.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ellie running with her father in the woods?

2. Will suggests that Ellie should ______________.

3. Who does Ellie think is nice?

4. About what does Ellie ask Will while they are chatting?

5. Why has Will moved a lot in his childhood?

(see the answer keys)

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