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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle: “As in, as hard as I can, every minute of every day” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) Work
(b) Try
(c) Help
(d) Love

2. What do the words “la note che le cose ci nasconde” that Ethan’s mother recites in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next" translate to?
(a) Follow the Wayward’s path to the moon
(b) Go quietly into the dark night
(c) The book is looking over your shoulder
(d) The night that hides things from us

3. What Celtic symbol adorns Ethan’s mother’s grave in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next"?
(a) Oden
(b) Phoenix
(c) Pan
(d) Awen

4. In Chapter 2: "Fried Green Tomatoes,” Ethan’s mother says that Amma has told Ethan’s father that he is where with his aunt?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Savannah
(c) New York
(d) Jackson

5. What are draped over the windows and mirrors of Ravenwood Manor in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?
(a) Gold sheets
(b) White sheets
(c) Black sheets
(d) Winter blankets

6. What is Ethan’s mother’s name in the novel?
(a) Lila Evers Wate
(b) Ridley Wate
(c) Sarafine Wate
(d) Mercy Wate

7. What is the name of the Gatlin cemetery that Ethan sees when he opens the door of the house in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next"?
(a) The Greenbrier Garden of Peace
(b) St. Augustine’s Gardens of Time
(c) Her Lady of the Silver Moon
(d) His Garden of Perpetual Peace

8. What book does Ethan describe reading that is about a man who voyages into the nine circles of Hell in Chapter 1: "Home"?
(a) Poetics
(b) The Divine Comedy
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) Inferno

9. Where does Genevieve say they took Ethan Carter Wate in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?
(a) To the Mortal realm
(b) To the River Styx
(c) To the Far Keep
(d) To the mouth of Sauron

10. Who was the teacher of Marian’s Buddhist class she has told Ethan about in Chapter 1: "Home"?
(a) Serenity Steve
(b) The Big Lebowski
(c) The Dude
(d) Buddha Bob

11. Who is described in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next" as being neither “Light or Dark, right or wrong. She was truth and balance in their purest forms”?
(a) The Lilum
(b) Sarafine
(c) Marian
(d) Genevieve

12. What does Ethan take from Aunt Prue’s hands before leaving her house as she sleeps in Chapter 4: “Catfish Crossin’”?
(a) A key
(b) A book
(c) A map
(d) A ring

13. What is the name of the aunt that Amma says Ethan is with in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles"?
(a) Marian
(b) Caroline
(c) Lila
(d) Sarafine

14. As Ethan sits outside of Wate’s Landing in Chapter 7: "Crosswords,” he wonders if his father is working on his book about what?
(a) The Sixteenth Moon
(b) The Eighteenth Moon
(c) The Seventh Moon
(d) The Twelfth Moon

15. What object does Lena take out in Chapter 6: "Silver Button" that Ethan recalls giving her not long ago on the water tower?
(a) A Sharpie pen
(b) A mixed tape
(c) A Bible
(d) A book of casts

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle for six down: “As in, parochial. Local. Insular. The place we’re stuck, whether in the Otherworld or the Mortal one” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

2. By what name does Ethan refer to Amma’s “death-defying, all-powerful wooden spoon of justice” in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?

3. What kind of car is Ethan’s father driving when he arrives home in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?

4. When Ethan awakens in Chapter 1: "Home,” he is in his old bedroom at what estate?

5. What has Amma sprinkled along the windowsills to keep spirits out in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?

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