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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 the person who tells the children of Cory's death say how he died?
(a) Of starvation.
(b) He was poisoned.
(c) Of pneumonia.
(d) A heart attack.

2. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) "The Long winter, and Spring, and Summer".
(b) "A Taste of Heaven".
(c) "One Rainy Afternoon".
(d) "The Christmas Party".

3. What is the title of the chapter when Cathy and Chris' plan to escape is halted when Cory gets ill?
(a) "To Find a Friend".
(b) "Color All Days Blue, but Save One for Black".
(c) "My Stepfather".
(d) "Escape".

4. What does Chris do when he begins sneaking out of the bedroom in Chapter 18?
(a) Stealing money.
(b) Torturing the grandfather.
(c) Stealing clothes.
(d) Stealing food.

5. What does Cathy cut herself with in Chapter 13?
(a) Scissors.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Glass.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 18?

2. What do Chris and Cathy do after he tends to her wounds from being beaten by the grandmother?

3. What is the name of the children's pet mouse?

4. What does Chris make a duplicate key of the bedroom door out of?

5. What does Chris tell Cathy is only something he should be able to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Mother discovers Chris out of the room in Chapter 11?

2. How do Chris and Cathy go to a lake in Chapter 14?

3. How is Bartholomew Winslow first described in the book?

4. How do the grandmother and mother react when Cory becomes ill in Chapter 20?

5. How is the trophy room in Foxworth Hall described in the book?

6. How does Cory come to have a pet mouse?

7. What happens when Cathy falls and cuts herself with scissors?

8. How do Chris and Cathy come to make love for the first time?

9. What does Cathy do one night when she finds her stepfather asleep in a chair?

10. How does Chris describe their mother's bedroom to Cathy?

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