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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 Chris use to make an impression of his mother's key of the bedroom door?
(a) A bar of soap.
(b) Gum.
(c) Styrofoam.
(d) Playdough.

2. How many days later does the Mother return to visit the children in Chapter 18?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

3. What is Cathy upset that her mother forgot to include in her gifts in Chapter 17?
(a) Shirts.
(b) Bras.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Skirts.

4. What do Chris and Cathy make a rope out of to use to escape the room for the first time?
(a) Shower curtains.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Bed sheets.
(d) Twine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following things does Chris not witness the Mother and her date doing when he sees them in Chapter 11?

2. Who yells at the Mother when she comes to visit the children in Chapter 17?

3. What is the title of the chapter when Cathy and Chris' plan to escape is halted when Cory gets ill?

4. What does Cathy cut herself with in Chapter 13?

5. What kind of activities does Cathy find people doing in a book she finds in her mother's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children realize is the reason their mother hasn't visited them in a month in Chapter 18?

2. What do Chris and Cathy witness at the Christmas party while hiding in a cupboard?

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

4. How is Chris and Cathy's first kiss described in the book?

5. What does Chris do when the grandmother accuses him and Cathy of incest in Chapter 13?

6. What happens when grandmother finds Chris in front of a window in Chapter 15?

7. What does Cathy notice about the gifts their mother brings them in Chapter 17?

8. How is Cathy's hair ruined in Chapter 13?

9. How does Chris get a key to their bedroom door?

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

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