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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Keesha says that she is afraid of whom?
(a) Clowns.
(b) Freddy Kreuger.
(c) Dracula.
(d) Her own thoughts.

2. What school friend of Tara's is described as black and dramatic in personality?
(a) Anna.
(b) Wendy.
(c) Keesha.
(d) Kristin.

3. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea?
(a) Poltergeist.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Oxymoron.

4. Tara thinks "Keesha is" what in Chapter 5?
(a) "An a**hole."
(b) "A jerk."
(c) "A nun."
(d) "A player."

5. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Anna says that she is afraid of whom?
(a) Her own thoughts.
(b) Clowns.
(c) Dracula.
(d) Freddy Kreuger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

2. How many times does Tara repeat her prayers before leaving the house when she's afraid in Chapter 8?

3. To whom does Tara pray to when she is frightened at home alone in Chapter 8?

4. In Chapter 8, Tara's father spends more and more time and energy transforming the American Legion into "a community center filled with life, laughter and piles of" what?

5. Tara says that she spent a lot of time with her mother until when, in Chapter 2?

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