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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. How does Tamaya's school uniform usually make her feel?
(a) Proud.
(b) Amused.
(c) Embarrassed.
(d) Trapped.

2. Who is Mrs. Thaxton?
(a) Marshall's teacher.
(b) Tamaya's teacher.
(c) The school headmistress.
(d) Marshall's mother.

3. 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 know nothing about him or his problems.
(c) He wishes that he did not have to spend so much time with his family.
(d) His parents are never home to take care of their own responsibilities.

4. Where does Chad claim he once rode his motorcycle?
(a) To New York City.
(b) Into a movie theater.
(c) To South America.
(d) Into the principal's office.

5. Why does Hope call Tamaya a "Goody Two-shoes" (5)?
(a) Tamaya worries that they will be late to class after lunch.
(b) Tamaya tells the boys that they should chew with their mouths closed.
(c) Tamaya is intelligent and cares about getting good grades.
(d) Tamaya reminds Chad that going into the woods is against the rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marshall do when he is asked whether he saw Chad after school on the previous day?

2. What does Tamaya's mother's question about Tamaya's report show about Tamaya's mother?

3. In the Chapter 11 excerpt from the Senate hearing, what concern do the senators express?

4. What does Tamaya realize about her hands at the end of Chapter 7?

5. How much time does it take for an ergonym to reproduce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ms. Filbert's balloon demonstration show about her as a teacher?

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

3. Why does Marshall blame his parents for his problems with Chad?

4. When he is lying awake on the night after Chad's attack, what two possible endings does Marshall imagine for a scenario where he tries to defend Tamaya from Chad?

5. Why has Chad come to Woodridge Academy?

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

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

8. How does knowing about Chad's threats make Chapter 5 more tense and suspenseful for the reader?

9. What are some of the odd habits that Jonathan Fitzman has?

10. 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?

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