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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom does Miles' mother work after she loses her job?
(a) Mrs. Whiting
(b) Wal-Mart
(c) The hospital
(d) Pills n Such drugstore

2. Why has Miles come into Bea's today?
(a) To offer her a proposal
(b) To escape boredom
(c) To watch football
(d) To get drunk

3. What does John tell Principal Meyer about his grandmother?
(a) She is hard of hearing
(b) She is blind
(c) She is dead
(d) She never gets out of bed

4. What is the title of Father Mark's sermon?
(a) When God Retreats
(b) When God Takes a Vacation
(c) Digital Deity
(d) God Unplugged

5. How does Principal Meyer know Zack has left the anonymous notes?
(a) Only someone with the proper key could have left them where he did
(b) Zack wants to get John in trouble
(c) Zack has always hated John
(d) Zack wants to create a diversion

6. At what table do Tick and John Voss sit every day?
(a) The circular table
(b) The long table
(c) The Blue table
(d) The Red table

7. What happens a couple weeks after Miles and his mother return from Martha's Vineyard?
(a) Miles enters the fourth grade
(b) Miles has a parasite
(c) Miles' mother divorces Miles' father
(d) It is announced that C.B. Whiting is going to Mexico

8. With whom is Justin Dibble in love?
(a) Tick
(b) Cindy
(c) Candice
(d) Grace

9. Who does Janine go to see for some nurturing?
(a) Bea
(b) Tick
(c) Miles
(d) Grace

10. Where is Miles in the flashback in Part 4, Chapter 26?
(a) Nassau
(b) Martha's Vineyard
(c) Portland
(d) Kennebunkport

11. What business closes in this year?
(a) Empire Textile
(b) Empire Technology
(c) Empire Dry Cleaners
(d) Empire Tool and Die

12. Where does Miles' mother take him after missing church for several weeks?
(a) Confession
(b) The stations of the cross
(c) Mass
(d) A novena

13. Who has become Tick's new friend?
(a) Zack
(b) Maggie
(c) Ellie
(d) Candice

14. According to Father Mark, with what church is St. Catherine's going to merge?
(a) St. Bernadette's Parish
(b) Sacre Couer
(c) The Assumption Church
(d) St. Mary's Church

15. What does John Voss bring into school?
(a) His lunch
(b) A painting
(c) A revolver
(d) A latte

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Miles and Tick going to Boston next weekend?

2. What is stuck in Janine's car as she tries to drive away from Tick?

3. Where are Zack and Justin parked?

4. Who had thrown himself in front of Tick to save her from John Voss' bullets?

5. What is a rumor buzzing around Empire Falls lately?

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