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

2. Why does Marshall keep looking at the classroom door in Chapter 15?
(a) He expects Chad to come through it.
(b) He keeps hearing a strange sound coming from behind it.
(c) He is waiting for his mom to bring his lunch.
(d) He is thinking about leaving.

3. What is implied by the equations at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) One person might struggle with a bully, but a group has more power.
(b) One organism can multiply into many in a short period of time.
(c) Sometimes it feels like our problems are multiplying fast.
(d) Tamaya's crush on Marshall is still more powerful than she admits.

4. What question did Mr. Davison ask Chad that caused Chad to embarrass himself with a clearly wrong answer?
(a) How many U.S. states there are.
(b) How many U.S. Senators there are.
(c) What the duties of the vice president are.
(d) What the three branches of the U.S. government are.

5. What does Marshall see that helps him and Tamaya find their way out of the woods?
(a) A stream.
(b) Smoke.
(c) A rooftop.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the product produced at SunRay Farms?

2. Where is Tamaya's mother when Tamaya arrives home after school in Chapter 9?

3. What is the name of the school that Tamaya goes to?

4. 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?

5. About how long before the action of the novel starts was the Senate hearing on SunRay Farms held?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the stories that Chad tells help to show what kind of a person he is?

2. What is Tamaya's attitude toward following rules?

3. When he is lying away on the night after Chad's attack, what does Marshall decide is his best hope for a final ending to the situation with Chad?

4. What do the descriptions of the outside and inside of Tamaya's house communicate about her home?

5. When other students speak up for Marshall during Mrs. Thaxton's questioning, what does this reveal about the situation with Chad turning everyone against Marshall?

6. What does Tamaya and her mother's nighttime routine communicate about their relationship?

7. Why has Chad come to Woodridge Academy?

8. What irony does Jonathan Fitzman see in the senators' questions about the ergonyms escaping into the environment?

9. What does Tamaya rub in Chad's face, and how does Chad react?

10. What ideas are conveyed by the description of the history of the building Woodridge Academy is housed in?

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