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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 do Irene and Father Mark find that gives them a clue about Father Tom?
(a) A Florida Keys brochure
(b) A Frequent Flier card
(c) A credit card application
(d) A library card

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

3. Who does Janine pick up along the way to the Grill?
(a) Father Mark
(b) Tick
(c) Zack
(d) John

4. Why are the students in Tick's art class feeling low?
(a) John Voss is gone
(b) Spring Break is cancelled
(c) The school bond didn't pass
(d) The football team lost the game

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max reply when Miles asks why he never said anything about Miles' mother and C.B. Whiting?

2. Who is Irene Walsh?

3. What is the possibility of Miles' parentage?

4. Who is Irene scurrying about trying to find on this morning?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the premise of Father Mark's sermon, When God Retreats?

2. What is the scenario of Miles in the hospital at the beginning of Part 4, Chapter 31?

3. What is the situation for Miles and Tick following the shooting?

4. Cite the three things that Tick notes have happened all in one day.

5. What are the events that occur when Principal Meyer visits John Voss' house?

6. What does Miles encounter when he arrives at the school?

7. What are the events of Grace's penance for her affair with C.B. Whiting?

8. What is Janine's state of mind based on new information she has about Walt?

9. Describe Sunday afternoons in Bea's bar.

10. What is the metaphor of John Voss dragging his grandmother's body to the dump?

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