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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 Melanie reveal about herself during April's first visit?
(a) That she has imaginary friends.
(b) That she is afraid of spiders.
(c) That she does not have many friends that play imagining games.
(d) That her friends do not like to read.

2. What are Melanie's concerns before the school year begins?
(a) She does not know how April will fit in.
(b) She hopes she will be on the basketball team.
(c) She hopes she will earn good grades.
(d) She hopes she will make new friends.

3. What idea is finally agreed upon by the Egyptians to set things right after their long absence?
(a) To sacrifice hair and pieces of fingernails.
(b) To offer something of value to the gods.
(c) To kill insects.
(d) To write their names in blood.

4. What do April, Melanie and Marshall find when they return to the yard to play for the second time?
(a) Someone has put more junk in the yard.
(b) Everything is just as they had left it.
(c) Someone has moved their things.
(d) The bust of Nefertiti is missing.

5. When does April meet Melanie and Marshall?
(a) When she comes to babysit Marshall.
(b) When she has lunch with the Rosses.
(c) At the park.
(d) On the street in their neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often do April and Melanie see each other before school begins?

2. What connects April and Melanie as friends?

3. What do the children call the lean-to?

4. Where is the Professor's shop in relation to where April is staying?

5. Whom do April and Melanie run into while trick-or-treating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Egyptians plan on doing Halloween night?

2. What is Melanie's initial impression of April?

3. What event happens in the neighborhood that puts a temporary halt to the Egypt Game?

4. What do the parents suggest to April and Melanie after the new family moves in?

5. What do the Egyptians do while they are on a hiatus from the Egypt Game as a result of a neighborhood event?

6. What is the first story April, Melanie and Marshall make up in the Egypt Game?

7. What leads the children to believe the Professor is not watching them play the Egypt Game?

8. What do April, Melanie and Marshall find inside the lean-to at the outset of the Egypt game?

9. Why are the children afraid of the Professor?

10. From where does the Professor watch the children play the Egypt Game?

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