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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 Malorie NOT identify as a problem from which the housemates suffer?
(a) They do not eat well.
(b) They do not get enough sun.
(c) They do not exercise enough.
(d) They do not have wireless internet.

2. What does the Boy ask for in Chapter 11?
(a) A puzzle.
(b) His water gun.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) A pouch of food.

3. What does Malorie tell the Girl to bring in the rowboat?
(a) A stuffed teddy bear.
(b) A puzzle.
(c) Her toy doll.
(d) A hat.

4. What does Malorie's text message to her child's father say?
(a) "Important stuff. Call when you can."
(b) "Do you still love me?"
(c) "Have you been cheating on me?"
(d) "I'm sorry I broke up with you."

5. Who volunteers to drink the well water that the housemates are worried about?
(a) Malorie.
(b) Felix.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in the river say about the creatures?

2. Where does the volunteer drink the glass of questionable well water?

3. What does Tom wonder about the creatures?

4. Where were incidents of "The Problem" first reported?

5. What lines the path that Felix takes outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shannon die?

2. What attacks Malorie in Chapter 16?

3. What is the baby book of Olympia's that Malorie remembers while rowing down the river?

4. Where and with whom does Malorie live at the beginning of the novel?

5. What is the first fatal incident reported by the media?

6. Where is Olympia from?

7. How did George die?

8. Where is the safe house, which Malorie discovers in a newspaper located?

9. Why are the housemates afraid to drink the water fetched by Felix?

10. How far along is Malorie's pregnancy when Tom leaves the house in Chapter 19?

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