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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. What does Amma insist that Ethan do with the locket he’s found in “The Sisters”?
(a) Give it to her to safe keep.
(b) Burn it in the oven.
(c) Take it to his father.
(d) Bury it where he found it.

2. What is the name of the wolf/dog owned by Macon Ravenwood in the novel?
(a) Denali.
(b) Boo Radley.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Sarafine.

3. Ethan learns from his aunts in “The Sisters” that the initials on the locket stand for what name?
(a) Emily Rosen Waters.
(b) Ethan Carter Wate.
(c) Genevieve Anne Masterson.
(d) Sarah Michelle Anderson.

4. What relative of Lena’s is said to have the ability to make his arms appear as snakes in “Gathering Days”?
(a) Larkin.
(b) Reese.
(c) Ryan.
(d) Thelma.

5. Who warns Genevieve that casting a spell to revive the dead will have consequences in “Marian the Librarian”?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Thelma.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Ivy.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does “The Real Boo Radley” begin?

2. What aroma does Ethan frequently smell after his recurring dreams and when strange things happen in the novel?

3. What date opens “A Crack in the Plaster”?

4. In Ethan’s recurring dream in “Dream On,” he is attempting to save a girl who is what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ethan and Lena part at the end of “Collision”? What aroma does Ethan smell at this time?

2. What is the significance of the numbers written on Lena’s hand in the novel?

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

4. How are the chapters structured in the novel? What is the significance of the dates noted?

5. What conversation does Ethan overhear between Macon Ravenwood and Amma in “The Greats”?

6. How does Ethan describe the physicality between himself and Lena in the early chapters of the novel?

7. Who is “Boo Radley” in “The Real Boo Radley”? What novel is this name an allusion to?

8. What is Amma’s role within the Wate household? How is her role in the family illustrated through her actions in “The Middle of Nowhere”?

9. Why does Lena attempt to push Ethan away in “Greenbrier”? How does Ethan respond?

10. When Ethan touches the locket while at church in “The Sisters,” what scene unfolds?

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