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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tamaya do when she gets home that makes her feel "the way a murderer felt after he succeeded in destroying all the evidence" (42)?
(a) Take a shower,
(b) Bandage her scraped knees.
(c) Wash her clothes.
(d) Text Marshall to remind him to keep their secret.

2. Who made the rule that prevents Tamaya from using the internet to help with her school work?
(a) Tamaya's father.
(b) Ms. Filbert.
(c) Tamaya's mother.
(d) Mrs. Thaxton.

3. What does Marshall do when he is asked whether he saw Chad after school on the previous day?
(a) He starts to cry.
(b) He lies.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He refuses to speak.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, why is Tamaya angry as she waits by the bike racks after school for Marshall?
(a) Her bike is missing.
(b) She has been given too much homework.
(c) Her friends upset her at lunchtime.
(d) Marshall is late.

5. What does Tamaya begin to feel more and more as she and Marshall walk to school on the day after their adventure in the woods?
(a) Dread.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Confusion.

6. At the end of Chapter 1, what does the brief description of Marshall eating alone foreshadow?
(a) His rudeness to Tamaya after school.
(b) The revelation that he is being bullied.
(c) Him and Tamaya getting lost in the woods.
(d) The discovery of the fuzzy mud.

7. Why does Marshall get in trouble for coming home late after school?
(a) He was supposed to be home to watch his siblings.
(b) He made his family late for a dinner reservation.
(c) His parents assumed that he was out causing trouble.
(d) His parents were worried about his safety.

8. What does Tamaya put on her hand to soothe her rash?
(a) Hand cream.
(b) A medicated ointment.
(c) Coconut oil.
(d) Hand sanitizer.

9. What main point does Professor Alice Mayfair seem to want to make in her Senate testimony?
(a) Sustainable energy practices are an unrealistic goal.
(b) Current pollution levels are already a threat to human health.
(c) Global overpopulation must be stopped.
(d) Biolene is engineered to be harmless to humans.

10. What do the students call the area of the school where the seventh grade classes are held?
(a) The dungeon.
(b) The stable.
(c) The pit.
(d) The stadium.

11. When Marshall gets in trouble, what does he say that makes his parents even angrier at him?
(a) He hates Woodridge and wants to go to another school.
(b) His parents are never home to take care of their own responsibilities.
(c) His parents know nothing about him or his problems.
(d) He wishes that he did not have to spend so much time with his family.

12. When Marshall accuses Tamaya of "pokeying" on page 21, what is he saying she is doing?
(a) Being clumsy and careless.
(b) Deliberately irritating him.
(c) Going slowly and wasting time.
(d) Dancing and twirling around.

13. Who are Daniela and Eric?
(a) Tamaya's best friends.
(b) Marshall's parents.
(c) Marshall's twin siblings.
(d) Tamaya's parents.

14. On page 9, one of the senators refers to a scientist as "eccentric"--what kind of a person does this word describe?
(a) Unusual in amusing or harmless ways.
(b) Angry and suspicious of others.
(c) Generous in surprising and unexpected ways.
(d) Dedicated to the point of being obsessed.

15. Why does Tamaya wake up at 7:08 every morning?
(a) Seven and eight are her and Monica's favorite numbers.
(b) 708 is the number of the house her family lived in before the divorce.
(c) Seventy and eight are the chapter and verse numbers of her favorite Bible quote.
(d) 708 is her locker number at Woodridge Academy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Monica see jogging past her house?

2. Who is the author of Fuzzy Mud?

3. While the class is writing in their journals, what does Hope notice about Tamaya?

4. When Monica sees Marshall on the morning after their adventure in the woods, what has changed about his appearance?

5. Why is Tamaya unable to finish writing her journal entry in Ms. Filber's class?

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