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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Bruning see about Peter and Debbie?
(a) There is an attraction between them.
(b) They are completely and totally in love.
(c) They do not like each other well.
(d) They are indifferent to each other.

2. What about the Catholic religion are the friends discussing at the beginning of Chapter 21?
(a) Styles of churches.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Priests not getting married.
(d) Confessions.

3. What type of music does Hector's song resemble?
(a) Country.
(b) Caribbean.
(c) Hard Rock.
(d) Jazz.

4. What does Hector say his grandmother talks about a lot?
(a) Her two small dogs.
(b) When she lived in Paris.
(c) Her surgeries.
(d) How her and her husband met.

5. With what is Patty struggling?
(a) A crush she has on a boy at school.
(b) The laws of physics.
(c) The marching band.
(d) Whether to apply to the local college or ones farther away from home.

6. What might disintegrate Patty's world?
(a) All the moving atoms to suddenly move differently.
(b) Her parents divorcing.
(c) Her science teacher retiring before Patty's senior year.
(d) Her grandmother dying.

7. What is Debbie doing as she hears Lenny and his father's conversation?
(a) Her algebra and German homework.
(b) Writing a poem.
(c) Painting with water colors.
(d) Sewing.

8. What does Debbie's great aunt say Debbie's cousin's job is?
(a) Selling shoes.
(b) Building houses.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Running a bulldozer.

9. What word does Debbie think of when she looks at her yearbook picture?
(a) Moth.
(b) Yuck.
(c) Turtle.
(d) Caterpillar.

10. What is wrong with Mrs. Bruning's car?
(a) It has no gas in it.
(b) The spark plugs are bad.
(c) Nothing is wrong with her car.
(d) The battery is dead.

11. Who has a locker next to Debbie?
(a) Hector.
(b) Lenny.
(c) Patty.
(d) Dan.

12. Who does Debbie think would want to know Hector's mother's recipe?
(a) She would.
(b) Debbie's mother.
(c) Mrs. Bruning.
(d) Patty's father.

13. What did Peter hear when he woke Saturday morning at his grandmother's?
(a) A vacumn cleaner.
(b) A loud motorcycle going down the street.
(c) His father singing.
(d) The radio.

14. Why does Lenny leave his backyard when Debbie is watching him?
(a) He is being chased by wasps.
(b) To find his father.
(c) For a drink of water.
(d) To answer the phone.

15. To what has Mrs. Bruning agreed with Peter's parents?
(a) A visiting nurse and meals on wheels.
(b) To move her bedroom downstairs.
(c) To leave for assisted living in two weeks.
(d) To advertise for a renter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Russell found?

2. What did Peter see that he thought was strange outside his bedroom window upon waking at his grandmother's house?

3. What causes problems for the teens who are ready to listen to "Criss Cross" in Chapter 21?

4. What has Hector forgotten?

5. Where does the necklace end up next after leaving Russel's pocket and being picked up?

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