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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 Cowney feel he will become if he stays in Cherokee in Chapter 2?
(a) An intern at the church.
(b) A college student.
(c) Lishie's caregiver.
(d) Bud's dispensable errand boy.

2. How does Essie know the rank of one of the first soldiers to greet them at the inn?
(a) Her uncle is in the army.
(b) Her old boyfriend is in the army.
(c) Her father is in the army.
(d) Her older brother is in the army.

3. What does Essie say she is looking for in the mystery room?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Food.
(d) Anything someone does not want her to see.

4. Who is Cowney's supervisor at the inn?
(a) Lee.
(b) Grant.
(c) Sol.
(d) Rob.

5. What does Cowney come to think of Sol as in Chapter Seven?
(a) A crow.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A crocodile.
(d) A bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cowney wrap the bone in in Chapter Eight?

2. What does Cowney find in the Prologue?

3. Where does Cowney grow up?

4. What does Essie's mother most want her to do?

5. In what year does Cowney work at the inn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bud do in the midst of the wildfires that appalls Cowney?

2. What game does Essie teach Cowney to play in Room 447, and how does he feel about it?

3. What physical challenge does Cowney have?

4. In Part II, what threatens Lishie's house and other areas of Cherokee?

5. What does Cowney feel his choices in life would be if he stayed in Cherokee?

6. What does Cowney think of the first dinner he eats at the inn?

7. What does Cowney think is the strangest thing about the story he is told about his father' death?

8. What is Cowney having trouble deciding about to do with his future in Part I?

9. Who is the most constant and comforting person in Cowney's life, and why?

10. What does Lee give Cowney in Part II, and how does Cowney feel about the gift?

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