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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. When Marian, Ethan, and Lena return to the present after time traveling using the locket in “Marian the Librarian,” Lena is hysterical because she believes the visions are a warning that what will happen?
(a) That harm will befall her children.
(b) That she will harm Macon.
(c) That she will die.
(d) That she will harm Ethan.

2. Where has Lena gone in the classroom when the window explodes in “Broken Glass”?
(a) To the pencil sharpener.
(b) To the bathroom.
(c) To the chalkboard.
(d) To the reading room.

3. Amma tells Macon Ravenwood that her family has been “cleaning up the messes” for Macon’s family for how long in “The Greats”?
(a) Over a century.
(b) Years.
(c) Decades.
(d) Half a century.

4. What kind of car does Lena use for transportation in the novel?
(a) A beetle.
(b) A van.
(c) A hearse.
(d) A pickup truck.

5. Where does Ethan awaken in the beginning of “The Writing on the Wall”?
(a) His father's study.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) Lena’s bedroom.
(d) The basement of his house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Aunt Del’s ten-year-old daughter in the novel?

2. Ethan’s aunts mention that Macon Ravenwood is often seen where in the evenings?

3. What initially prevents Lena and Ethan from traveling back in time when they touch the locket in “Red Sweater”?

4. Ethan’s aunts explain that the reason Ethan hasn’t seen the relative whose initials are on the locket on the family tree is because he was what, in “The Sisters”?

5. What does Ethan tell Lena in “The Writing on the Wall”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lena explain her personal predicament to Ethan in “A Crack in the Plaster”?

2. When Ethan and Lena show Marian the locket and travel back in time in “Marian the Librarian,” what scene do they arrive in?

3. What is significant about the conversation between Ethan and Lena regarding the storm in “Collision”?

4. Who are “The Sisters” that this chapter title references? What is their relationship to Ethan?

5. What confuses Ethan about the appearance of Ravenwood Manor when he arrives in “The Real Boo Radley”?

6. What part of the library does Ethan visit for the first time in “Marian the Librarian”? How is this room described?

7. What does Ethan reveal to Lena about the locket in “The Real Boo Radley”? Why does Lena skip school in this chapter?

8. What does Lena explain to Ethan about the names of her family members in “The Writing on the Wall”?

9. Why is Lena upset when she, Ethan, and Marian return to the present in “Marian the Librarian”? How does Marian respond?

10. How does Lena describe her family members’ supernatural powers in “A Crack in the Plaster”?

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