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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tara's friends invite her to do for their Little League games in Chapter 4?
(a) Coach the team.
(b) Play catcher.
(c) Keep score.
(d) Play pitcher.

2. What classmates see Tara get reprimanded by her neighbor in Chapter 1?
(a) Sam and Chuck.
(b) Richard and Sam.
(c) Kevin and Richard.
(d) Chuck and Kevin.

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

4. What catch phrase does Tara begin hearing over and over in her head as described in Chapter 1?
(a) "I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you."
(b) "Step on a crack, break your mother's back."
(c) "Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me."
(d) "Mary, Mary, quite contrary."

5. 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) Oxymoron.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The captain of the volleyball team screams at Tara for what in Chapter 3?

2. What is Tara's least favorite class in Chapter 3?

3. Tara's mother gets a note from her teacher accusing Tara of not paying attention when she is comforting herself by doing what in Chapter 3?

4. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Anna says that she is afraid of whom?

5. In Chapter 4, Tara says that "invisible ____ had snuck into my brain."

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