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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tamaya almost laugh when she offers Chad her peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
(a) She enjoys being the one who has power over Chad for a change.
(b) She is relieved that she has found Chad and can start to help him.
(c) She knows that Chad's least favorite lunch is peanut butter and jelly.
(d) She remembers Mrs. Latherly's theory about the rash being caused by peanut butter.

2. How does Tamaya learn that Chad is missing?
(a) The police come to ask students questions.
(b) Mrs. Thaxton makes an announcement.
(c) She overhears Mr. Franks making a phone call.
(d) The boys at lunch tell her.

3. What does Mrs. Thaxton's memory of Chad's enrollment at Woodridge seem to show about Chad's mother?
(a) She is sad and overwhelmed by Chad's behavior.
(b) She does not care very much about Chad's feelings.
(c) She bullies Chad in the same way he bullies other students.
(d) She secretly thinks that Chad's behavior is funny.

4. Where does Mrs. Dhilwaddi go after Mrs, Thaxton calls her to tell her Tamaya is missing?
(a) Home.
(b) The police station.
(c) Woodridge Academy.
(d) The woods.

5. What does Fitzman say cars that use Biolene must be equipped with?
(a) Low-emissions exhaust.
(b) High-impact side panels.
(c) Vacuum fuel injection.
(d) A steel cage around the fuel tank.

6. When the school is put on lockdown, where is Marshall?
(a) In the woods.
(b) On his way home.
(c) In Mrs. Thaxton's office.
(d) In Mr. Davison's class.

7. What does the school nurse eventually decide must have caused Tamaya's rash?
(a) Cleaning products.
(b) The fuzzy mud.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) Her new shampoo.

8. When they are in the woods together, what does Chad confess he lied about at school?
(a) Riding a motorcycle.
(b) Going into the woods.
(c) Going to jail.
(d) Locking his teacher in a closet.

9. What part of Marshall gets muddy when he is first trying to help Tamaya out of the gully?
(a) His leg.
(b) His fingertips.
(c) His face.
(d) His arm.

10. What is Tamaya's plan for finding Chad?
(a) She will look for broken branches and twigs.
(b) She will look for the fuzzy mud.
(c) She will listen for the sound of someone moving.
(d) She will follow his footprints.

11. What do all of the students' theories about what has happened to Chad seem to have in common?
(a) The idea that Chad has run away because his parents were mad at him.
(b) The belief that Chad's disappearance is part of some strange game Chad is playing.
(c) The idea that Chad himself is to blame for whatever has happened to him.
(d) The suspicion that Chad's disappearance was caused by Marshall.

12. When Tamaya learns of Chad's disappearance, who does she immediately want to talk to?
(a) Mrs. Thaxton.
(b) Marshall.
(c) The police.
(d) Her mother.

13. What is being foreshadowed when Tamaya hears Chad groan and thinks that she hopes he will be able to keep walking, because it is already getting dark?
(a) The kids' rescue by the search party.
(b) Chad needing to be carried.
(c) The kids getting lost again.
(d) Tamaya losing her vision.

14. What government agency does Dr. Peter Smythe work for?
(a) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(c) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(d) The U.S. Department of Energy.

15. When Chad is talking about tree climbing, what does Tamaya realize?
(a) Chad knows a lot more about the woods than she does.
(b) One of the trees she is using as a guidepost is a tree Chad uses for climbing.
(c) Chad probably used a perch in the trees to spy on her and Marshall.
(d) Chad probably knew about the fuzzy mud before they all went into the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mrs. Thaxton notice that Marshall is missing?

2. What mistake does Marshall make when he spots Chad and Tamaya in the woods?

3. What does Chad tell Tamaya he has been thinking about while he has been lost in the woods?

4. What possible ergonym mutation are the senators worried about?

5. How is Tamaya's lunch sack different from Hope's and Monica's?

(see the answer keys)

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