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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 Elmira prepare for the election day at the lodge?
(a) Cookies and cakes
(b) Special brew
(c) Posters
(d) Ballots

2. Which of the following descriptions best matches what the children thought the Lonely One looked like?
(a) Tall, pale with dark hair
(b) Short, dark with light hair
(c) Chubby and red-faced
(d) Tall, dark skin, and light hair

3. How old is Lavinia Nebbs?
(a) 33
(b) 54
(c) 25
(d) 87

4. What does Bill order at the drug store ice cream counter which catches the attention of Helen?
(a) Old-fashioned chocolate shake
(b) Old-fashioned vanilla
(c) Old-fashioned lime-vanilla ice
(d) Old-fashioned cherry soda

5. How hot does the thermometer say the house is?
(a) 92
(b) 87
(c) 80
(d) 75

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters is an active, spry woman in her nineties?

2. How many years was Colonel Freeleigh wheelchair ridden?

3. Which of the following describes the style of Grandmother's kitchen under normal circumstances?

4. Where does Douglas go while Tom returns to the arcade?

5. What doesn't Grandfather want to talk about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lavina feel on her lonely walk home after finding the dead body and going to the movies with her friend?

2. How does Douglas come to recover from the fever?

3. How does Great-grandma tell Douglas that she will always be with him, even for a thousand years?

4. What do the various bottles of dandelion wine that were bottled from June and July represent to Douglas?

5. Why does Douglas believe that he must work with Tom to rescue the real Mme. Tarot?

6. Why doesn't Douglas finish his entry about what he must do some day in his tablet?

7. How does Tom keep an eye on Mr. Black so that Douglas and Tom can rescue Mme. Tarot?

8. How does Douglas help Grandmother to be able to return to the excellent cook she always was before Aunt Rose came?

9. How does Great-grandma tell Douglas to find the new person who will take over the chore of fixing the roof shingles in the spring which she used to be responsible for doing?

10. What is unique about Mr. Jonas' business with the junkyard wagon and horse?

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