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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Johnnie-O and his friends take from Nick?
(a) Key.
(b) Piece of chewed gum.
(c) Photograph.
(d) Piece of paper.

2. Where does Allie want to go?
(a) To the ocean.
(b) Into the light.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Home.

3. What does Allie write on her paper?
(a) A story.
(b) Questions.
(c) Her memories.
(d) A list.

4. What does Nick say, when Allie asks if he's always full of doom and gloom?
(a) Usually.
(b) Not when he's alive.
(c) Always.
(d) Never.

5. Where do Allie and Nick stop to rest on the road south?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) At spots where the road is cracked and potholed.
(c) At spots where there is total darkness.
(d) At spots where people have died.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days does it take Allie and Nick to get out of the mountains?

2. Who is the first of the three children to step onto the marble plaza of the World Trade Center?

3. In what book does Mary write, "We are better than life"?

4. What does Nick's mother believes happens to people after they die?

5. Which tire blows on the Mercedes?

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