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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is April's father George away?
(a) He's in the hospital.
(b) He's traveling on business.
(c) He's involved in a trial.
(d) He's separated from her mother.

2. What surprises April when she returns home to Lemon Lane from her first walk around Grove City?
(a) Steve has called.
(b) There is another car in the driveway.
(c) Her father is gone.
(d) Her grandmother has called.

3. What is going to happen to April's family's dog, Porky?
(a) He'll be sent to the dog pound.
(b) He'll go with them.
(c) Max will find a new home for him.
(d) He's going to their grandmother's.

4. What grade is April in?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Twelfth.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Tenth.

5. Why is April astonished that her father would help the FBI?
(a) He hates all law enforcement agencies.
(b) He is hiding his criminal past.
(c) He has severe health problems.
(d) He is not a risk taker.

6. What has April just celebrated at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The first anniversary of dating her boyfriend.
(b) Her winning a sports championship.
(c) Her seventeenth birthday.
(d) Her boyfriend's birthday.

7. Who does April meet behind the school on Orange Avenue?
(a) A middle-aged couple from the Grove City Country Club.
(b) Four teenagers.
(c) Two young men.
(d) Two teenagers.

8. Why doesn't Mr. Corrigan want his wife to continue with her career in Florida?
(a) He was always jealous of her career.
(b) She would have to leave home to work.
(c) They don't need the extra money.
(d) He thinks it might blow their cover.

9. What criminal activity has Mr. Corrigan been involved in?
(a) Smuggling cocaine.
(b) Hiring illegal aliens.
(c) Passing bad checks.
(d) A car-theft ring.

10. Bram is upset about having his trait disguised, but he is also upset about something else. What is it?
(a) Jim's death.
(b) His grandmother not coming with them.
(c) Leaving his dog behind.
(d) Attending a new school.

11. April picks up the phone and hears her mother talking to Max. What does she overhear?
(a) Them arranging to have her father call the next day.
(b) Max telling her mother that they are in danger for their lives.
(c) Her mother crying.
(d) Max saying they will be back home in two days.

12. What nickname does Steve have for April?
(a) Rapunzel.
(b) Baby cakes.
(c) Princess.
(d) April-La-La

13. How does Mrs. Corrigan feel after they arrive at the Mayflower Hotel?
(a) She is angry about leaving her home.
(b) She is worried about her husband.
(c) She is exhausted and shaky.
(d) She is relieved they are safe.

14. What is April's first impression of their new home in Florida?
(a) She thinks it looks like a college dorm.
(b) She thinks it is fabulous.
(c) She thinks it does not have indoor plumbing.
(d) She thinks it smells like a locker room.

15. When the family goes shopping in Grove City for the first time, what does April get her dad to buy for her?
(a) A ghetto blaster.
(b) A tennis racket.
(c) A lot of new clothes.
(d) Some make up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did April meet her boyfriend Steve?

2. What does Mrs. Corrigan talk bitterly about to Tom Geist?

3. Max turns the family over to Jim Peterson. What is Jim going to do for them?

4. How does the family travel to Florida?

5. April finds out more information on what happened to her father the day after he phones her mother. How does this happen?

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