1. The captain of the volleyball team screams at Tara for what in Chapter 3?
(a) Walking off the court during play.
(b) Missing a ball.
(c) Serving the ball.
(d) Tearing the net down.

2. What does Tara repeatedly do on a ride at the carnival in Chapter 10?
(a) Calls for her mother.
(b) Screams.
(c) Crosses herself.
(d) Throws up.

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

4. Tara begins to pray for people who do what in Chapter 6?
(a) Don't trust each other.
(b) Steal.
(c) Curse.
(d) Eat too much.

5. What means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a loss of contact with reality?
(a) Psychosis.
(b) Depressive behavior.
(c) Compulsive behavior.
(d) Shyness.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 8, Tara says that her parents "release their anxiety by fighting about money, movies, friends" and what?

3. What is, according to a Christian theological doctrine, humanity's state of sin resulting from the Fall of Man?

4. What is the name of Tara's little sister?

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

(see the answer key)

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