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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) The sword Ellie's father is writing about.
(d) One of the first anagrams ever discovered from ancient Greece.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ellie chatting with Liz after school?

2. Why is Will's father disappointed in Will?

3. What is one thing Ellie enjoys doing?

4. What does Ellie feel as she is running?

5. Why was Marco Campbell kicked out of school the year before?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ellie notice when she runs by a ravine? Why does she think it odd?

2. What does Marco do that confuses Ellie?

3. What gossip does Liz tell Ellie about Will's family?

4. What poem is initially assigned to Ellie in class? How does she get a different one?

5. What happens during the football game with Will, Lance, and one of the other team members?

6. What do Ellie and Will talk about as they are floating in the pool?

7. What happens as the teens prepare to go sailing?

8. Why does Ellie pull out her school directory?

9. How does Will interact with Ellie's parents?

10. What does Jennifer want when Ellie talks to her at Ellie's locker?

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