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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 Fone begin to do when the children play dead in his house?
(a) List off the ingredients for possum stew.
(b) Sweep.
(c) Do a dance.
(d) Walks around sniffing of the children.

2. What two things does Fone explain he didn't pack enough of when he left Boneville?
(a) Money and books.
(b) Maps and water.
(c) Food and water.
(d) Food and blankets.

3. What does Fone do believing the rat creatures would have to be stupid to do while following him in Chapter two?
(a) Climbs a tree with a hornet's nest in it.
(b) Jumps into a freezing lake.
(c) Jumps out onto a small branch.
(d) Goes into a bears cave.

4. What does Fone say about Moby Dick?
(a) He has never understood it.
(b) He found it.
(c) It was what Smiley used to reach things high up on shelves.
(d) It is his favorite book.

5. What is Fone told when he asks someone in chapter one how to get back to Boneville?
(a) Going to Boneville is illegal.
(b) It is a month's worth of travel.
(c) You must go through Death Valley to reach Boneville.
(d) No one has ever heard of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the map finally lead Fone to?

2. What does Fone pretend to be while playing with the possum children?

3. What does the creature ask Fone to do in chapter one?

4. What do the possum children tell Fone in regards to Fone's wardrobe in chapter two?

5. After following the map for sometime in Chapter one what does Fone begin to believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens when Fone first takes the children home in chapter two.

2. What is Fone talking about while trying to get out of the gorge in chapter one?

3. What happens when Phoney finds the dragon?

4. What happens when Thorn finds the map that Smiley had found in the desert?

5. What sound do the Bones hear in chapter one?

6. What happens as the Bones become separated in chapter one?

7. What happens when Fone meets Thorn?

8. What happens when Fone enters the valley in chapter one?

9. What does Smiley find in chapter one?

10. Describe how the chase scene begins in chapter two between Fone and the rat creatures.

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