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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 are a group of Touch members doing when Alex leaves the compound after speaking with Baron and Delilah?
(a) Abducting Houten.
(b) Singing.
(c) Meditating on the lawn.
(d) Having sex.

2. What is in the red porcelain bowls on the table that Alex sees through the window at the Retreat?
(a) Salt.
(b) Opium.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Butter.

3. Who does Raoul barge in on to demand the arrest of the Touch for the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Swope?
(a) Judge Severe.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Milo.
(d) Houten.

4. What does Alex dream the bullets hitting his house are?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Hail.
(c) Insects.
(d) Birds.

5. Who tore up the room in the Sea Breeze Motel?
(a) Doug.
(b) Nona.
(c) Woody.
(d) Mr. Swope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Houten say Raoul looks like he fell into when Alex goes to retrieve him from jail?

2. What does Houten say he is getting for Raoul at the end of Chapter 15?

3. What kind of food does Ezra say he doesn't eat?

4. How long has Ezra been living in La Vista?

5. What does Doug refer to as "poison" when he enters the trailer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condition is Raoul in when Alex goes to pick him up in La Vista, and why is he like that?

2. Why does Alex set aside the magazine he's reading while he waits for Ezra to speak with Raoul?

3. What does Alex think about as he tries to fall asleep on his first night in the Bel-Air Hotel?

4. Why is Alex particularly concerned about Ricky Moody following the death of Richard Moody?

5. Why does Doug feel he, Nona, and Woody are a family?

6. What is significant about the back road Alex notices on the county map in the La Vista police station?

7. Why is Alex certain that Matthias lied about buying seeds from Mr. Swopes?

8. What does the name of the sect "The Touch" refer to?

9. Why does Alex decide to follow the car he encounters as he leaves the Retreat?

10. What is significant about the route Ezra and Alex take to Ezra's home?

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