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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. What does Trisha use to wave bugs away?
(a) Her bag.
(b) Her cap.
(c) Her ponytail.
(d) Her hands.

2. Who does Trisha imagine is in the woods protecting her?
(a) Her father.
(b) Tom Gordon.
(c) The unseen "thing."
(d) Pete.

3. Where does Pete go to school?
(a) George Washington High School.
(b) Sanford Middle School.
(c) Henderson Elementary.
(d) Duke University.

4. What color is Mazzerole's van?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Orange.

5. Which is one of the animals Trisha prays would distract her brother?
(a) Alligator.
(b) Llama.
(c) Dinosaur.
(d) Tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pete lie awake thinking about?

2. What ailment does Trisha wake up with after her first night in the forest?

3. How does Larry refer to Tom Gordon in relation to Trisha?

4. What does Trisha get stung by?

5. What do Trisha and her father sit on in in her dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Larry feel about Tom Gordon?

2. What does Trisha imagine to make herself feel better after she realizes she does not know much about the wilderness?

3. Describe what Trisha sees when the first stream she follows narrows?

4. Why do the police begin to look for a man named Mazzerole?

5. Describe Trisha's vision of herself dying.

6. What does Quilla tell Trisha about avoiding mosquitoes?

7. How does Trisha end up at the edge of a cliff?

8. What does Trisha learn from "Little House on the Prairie"?

9. Why does Trisha not eat a large clump of fiddleheads that she sees?

10. What does Trisha think her mom will do when she realizes she's missing?

(see the answer keys)

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