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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Homecoming, Bart, pretending to be Malcolm, demands toast and ________ for breakfast.
(a) Apricot Marmalade.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Tobacco pipe.
(d) Scotch.

2. In Gathering Darkness, what does Chris use to coax Bart out of bed?
(a) Chicken legs.
(b) Ant terrarium.
(c) Lemon pie.
(d) Fish hatching.

3. Where was the mountain cottage Jory remembers living in with his mother when he was three?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Florida.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

4. When does Corinne say her doctors released her?
(a) Three months previously.
(b) Just before Christmas.
(c) Last summer.
(d) Four years ago.

5. What does Malcolm's journal say he took pleasure in beating?
(a) Servants.
(b) Animals.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

6. What does Bart say he has bad genes from in the chapter titled Honor Thy Mother?
(a) Daddy Bart.
(b) Coming second.
(c) Taking too long to be born.
(d) Inbreeding.

7. Who is Chris' father?
(a) Malcolm.
(b) John Amos.
(c) Malcolm's half brother.
(d) Paul Sheffield.

8. Whose hair does Malcolm write about cutting in his journal?
(a) Alicia's.
(b) Olivia's.
(c) Violet Blue's.
(d) Corinne's.

9. Bart thinks that doctors are always seeing blood because they're always cutting into people. What blood is Chris noticing when Bart thinks this?
(a) Clover's dead body.
(b) Bart's healing infection.
(c) Cindy's scraped knee.
(d) Bart's bleeding lip.

10. What second role does Cathy dance for in the ballet that she does not tell Chris about?
(a) Coppelius.
(b) Mechanical doll.
(c) Swanhilda.
(d) Corps.

11. What is the psychiatrist's name that Cathy and Chris first send Bart to?
(a) Dr. Alexandra Hearst.
(b) Dr. Marie Dubois.
(c) Dr. Hermes.
(d) Dr. Mary Oberman.

12. What does Chris call the old woman next door after he meets her?
(a) Corinne.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister Mary.
(d) Mrs. Malcolm.

13. What is John Amos's last name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Malcolm.
(c) Dunham.
(d) Dahl.

14. During Chris and Corinne's first confrontation, how does Jory know Bart is in the room?
(a) He smells him.
(b) He hears sounds in the corner.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Bart is never far from Corinne.

15. What does Bart unintentionally injure his knee with?
(a) Pony cart.
(b) Rusty nail.
(c) Sharp stone.
(d) Hammer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the psychiatrist tell Chris and Cathy that Bart seems programmed for?

2. How does Bart say his real father died?

3. As Bart is waiting to die under the shrubs, who's problems does he think he is he solving?

4. What possession of Cathy's does Jory catch Bart deliberately breaking?

5. Where is Jory when he notices Clover is missing?

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