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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chet think the person he sees in the woods is doing in Chapter 18?
(a) Looking for an animal.
(b) Hiding.
(c) Building a house.
(d) Performing a spell.

2. What does Gen ask Valencia about when she opens the door and meets her for the first time in Chapter 24?
(a) Valencia's backpack.
(b) Valencia's hearing aids.
(c) Valencia's pet rat.
(d) Valencia's journal.

3. In Chapter 20, what can Virgil never remember having done before in his life?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Talking back to his mother.
(d) Yelling.

4. What does Chet use to help him find a snake?
(a) Snakeskin.
(b) A stick.
(c) Live rodents.
(d) A compass.

5. What work of literature was the name of Valencia's guinea pig taken from?
(a) Treasure Island.
(b) Gulliver's Travels.
(c) A Christmas Carol.
(d) Moby Dick.

6. Who was the king in Lola's story who was only one inch tall that Virgil tells the voice in the well about in Chapter 27?
(a) Paulito.
(b) Joselito.
(c) Salvadoro.
(d) Roberto.

7. What is one question Valencia writes down in her diary about rodents in Chapter 21?
(a) What is the largest rodent in the world?
(b) Why does she never see rats in the woods?
(c) What do mice do in the winter?
(d) What are rodents' main predators?

8. What did Virgil's mother used to tell him when he had bad dreams as a younger child?
(a) Imagine you are someplace else.
(b) Go back to sleep.
(c) Everyone has dreams but not everyone lets the dreams scare them.
(d) It will all look better in the daytime.

9. What was one thing Kaori inherited from her mother?
(a) Her skills in mathematics.
(b) Her empathy.
(c) A keen sense of time.
(d) Her long silky hair.

10. In Chapter 23, what was Kaori's first word?
(a) Future.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Stone.
(d) Nomad.

11. What special stone does Kaori say they need to find in Chapter 31 for the ceremony?
(a) Quartz.
(b) Coal.
(c) Snakeskin agate.
(d) Diamond.

12. How does Valencia think of moving through the woods in Chapter 19?
(a) She likes to think of the birds' songs leading her through the woods.
(b) She likes to track animal prints through the woods.
(c) She likes to think of herself as blindfolded in the woods.
(d) She does not just walk through the woods, she feels them.

13. What does the voice in the well tell Virgil silence is good for in Chapter 28?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Contacting others.
(c) Listening for animals nearby.
(d) Hearing your own thoughts.

14. What surprises Virgil about his own voice when he finally yells for help from the well in Chapter 20?
(a) How much it sounds like his father's voice.
(b) How loud it is.
(c) How high it is.
(d) How scratchy it is.

15. What did Valencia once read squirrels often forget?
(a) Where they made their nests.
(b) Who their mothers are.
(c) Where they left their babies.
(d) Where they hid their nuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Chet's father's favorite expressions that Chet remembers in Chapter 29?

2. What does Kaori tell Valencia about Virgil's Lola?

3. Who is the only one besides Kaori who knows where the crystals are?

4. What language does Valencia want to learn?

5. What does Kaori believe she was in her second life, as described in Chapter 31?

(see the answer keys)

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