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

2. What is ironic about how careful Tamaya is in positioning Chad when they are getting ready to jump the gully?
(a) She is the one who ends up losing her footing.
(b) Chad does not actually care if he falls in the mud.
(c) Chad is tall enough to just step across the gully.
(d) She does not really care what happens to Chad.

3. What is the name of the dog that licks Tamaya when the searchers find her, Marshall, and Chad?
(a) Miss Marple.
(b) Sherlock.
(c) Rockford.
(d) Nero.

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

5. What is Tamaya so confused about throughout lunch in Chapter 17?
(a) How other students do not seem to mind the noise and chaos in the lunchroom.
(b) The way adults seem to do the opposite of what they say.
(c) The way her friends are acting around the boys.
(d) That no one seems to care where she really got her rash.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chad is talking about tree climbing, what does Tamaya realize?

2. What does Mrs. Thaxton's memory of Chad's enrollment at Woodridge seem to show about Chad's mother?

3. How long did Marshall's friends refuse to let him play basketball with them because of Chad's intimidation?

4. What item does Tamaya have with her when she goes into the woods in Chapter 17?

5. What does it mean that Tamaya feels "a rush of revulsion" when Chad's hand touches hers (119)?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Marshall is on the basketball court at lunch, what is ironic about his behavior toward Tamaya?

2. How does Chad feel that he is different from his siblings and from the other Woodridge students?

3. What steps do Marshall and Tamaya take to warn the search party about the mud?

4. What do all of the rumors about Chad's disappearance show about both Chad and the other students at Woodridge Academy?

5. What does Chapter 21 reveal will happen in Heath Cliff?

6. What details show the reader how Hope, Monica, and Summer want boys to see them?

7. What is ironic about Chad's threat to use the stick to hit Tamaya?

8. When they are in the woods together, what does Tamaya learn about Chad's story about the hermit?

9. How does Tamaya try to ensure that she will be able to find her way back out of the woods?

10. When Chad tells Tamaya and Marshall about being up in the trees, what does Tamaya think sounds so nice about it, and why?

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