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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. Where did the Marine Sulphur Queen vanish?
(a) Off the coat of Florida.
(b) Off the coast of Maine.
(c) Off the coast of New York.
(d) Off the coast of South Carolina.

2. What is the weather like, when the McGill comes to the piers?
(a) Snowing.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Raining.
(d) Foggy.

3. What does the McGill think he smells on the deck, after dealing with the captives?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Rotten eggs.

4. What does the mob try to do to Mikey?
(a) Push him into the ground.
(b) Push him into the casinos.
(c) Push him into the hold of his boat.
(d) Push him into the water.

5. What does the old man balk at doing?
(a) Radioing the docks.
(b) Walkig into the pilot room.
(c) Taking control of the ferry.
(d) Stopping the ferry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the McGill, when Allie goes searching for his fortune cookies?

2. How many tries does it take Allie to type her message?

3. How does Mary know something must be horribly wrong, as Nick approaches the Twin Towers?

4. How does the McGill say he came back from the center of the Earth?

5. How many years does Mikey think he needs of "halfway-decent deeds" to make up for his time as a monster?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Allie do with her typed message?

2. What caused the little girl at the end of the story to get lost on her way to the light?

3. How does the McGill describe sinking down into the Earth?

4. What is inside the McGill's safe?

5. What did the Twin Pier Marauders do to the McGill?

6. What effect does seeing his picture have on the McGill?

7. What does the McGill keep in his spittoon?

8. How does Mikey escape the mob?

9. What does Allie do, to prove she has skinjacked the woman in the haunted house?

10. Why does Choo-Choo Charlie like Penn Station?

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