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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date is “The Greats” set?
(a) October 9.
(b) September 2.
(c) September 24.
(d) October 12.

2. What initially prevents Lena and Ethan from traveling back in time when they touch the locket in “Red Sweater”?
(a) Ethan’s pocket-lint.
(b) Lena's curse.
(c) The broken frame.
(d) Amma’s amulet.

3. Who is the woman that Lena and Ethan encounter when they are transported through time to the plantation in “Greenbrier”?
(a) Genevieve.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Grace.

4. How is Link’s car referred to in the novel?
(a) "The Lemon."
(b) "The Whip."
(c) “The Beater.”
(d) "The Gas Guzzler."

5. Ridley tells Ethan that she is related to Lena how in “Gathering Days”?
(a) She is her aunt.
(b) She is her sister.
(c) She is her cousin.
(d) She is her mother.

6. In Ethan’s recurring dream in “Dream On,” he is attempting to save a girl who is what?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Falling.
(c) On fire.
(d) Running from a vampire.

7. What does Lena reach into Ethan’s pocket to take out in “The Last Three Rows”?
(a) His ring.
(b) Money.
(c) His keys.
(d) Milk Duds.

8. What term does Lena use to describe people in her family who hold magical powers in “A Fork in the Road”?
(a) Witches.
(b) Succulents.
(c) Casters.
(d) Warlocks.

9. Lena tells Ethan in “A Crack in the Plaster” that most of her family members with magical abilities learned to control them by what time?
(a) As they neared 16.
(b) When they became elderly.
(c) As soon as they were born.
(d) When they became middle aged.

10. Ethan lives in what southern U.S. State in the novel?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Georgia.

11. Ethan’s friend Link tells him in “The Real Boo Radley” that a “lynch mob” is setting out to do what?
(a) Catch a runaway slave.
(b) Have the mayor impeached.
(c) Burn down the library.
(d) Have Lena expelled from school.

12. What does Lena says her Aunt Del is in “A Crack in the Plaster”?
(a) A Palimpsest.
(b) An illusionist.
(c) A siren.
(d) A shifter.

13. When Lena and Ethan are transported back in time in “The Last Three Rows,” Genevieve is frantic and discovers that her mother and who are already dead in the fires?
(a) Sarafine.
(b) Evangeline.
(c) Reese.
(d) Sarah.

14. What date is given in the opening of “Broken Glass”?
(a) September 12.
(b) March 12.
(c) September 24.
(d) September 2.

15. By what name does Lena call Ridley’s mother in the novel?
(a) Aunt Thelma.
(b) Aunt Del.
(c) Aunt Sarafine.
(d) Sister Mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ethan is entering what year in high school in the beginning of the novel?

2. On what date does “Gathering Days” begin?

3. What does Ethan find strange after he awakens from the recurring dream in “Dream On”?

4. Ethan learns from his aunts in “The Sisters” that the initials on the locket stand for what name?

5. What is the name of the postmaster that Amma gets a ride from in “The Greats”?

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