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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth refer to as "old people stuff"?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Finance.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Cooking.

2. What does Amanda do as a pretense once the people on the porch are inside the house?
(a) Check on the kids.
(b) Dial the police.
(c) Cook a new dinner.
(d) Read a book.

3. What does Amanda make for lunch in Chapter 17?
(a) Hamburgers.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Pasta.
(d) Cheese and chocolate sandwiches.

4. What does Amanda hear that startles her in Chapter 6?
(a) Birds squawking.
(b) Noises outside.
(c) A loud boom.
(d) Wolves howling.

5. What does G.H. do for a living?
(a) Manages money.
(b) Performs surgery.
(c) Landscapes.
(d) Writes.

6. What does the house exterior look like in Chapter 2?
(a) It is clapboard.
(b) It is stone.
(c) It is tudor.
(d) It is white-painted brick.

7. How does Clay feel towards the people on the porch at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Sorry for them.
(b) Angry at them.
(c) Indifferent to them.
(d) Terrified of them.

8. What does Rose see in Chapter 13?
(a) Lots of insects.
(b) Many deer.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Hawks.

9. What does Amanda think about the way the Washingtons look in relation to the question of them owning the house?
(a) She does not think anything about the way they look in regard to the question of them owning the house.
(b) She thinks they look as if they are more likely to clean the house than own it.
(c) She thinks they look like exactly the type of people she pictured owning a home like this.
(d) She thinks they look too rich to own a home like this.

10. What is Rose upset about in Chapter 13?
(a) The sky is gray.
(b) The television does not work.
(c) The weather is too hot.
(d) The pool is sullied.

11. What does Clay make for dinner the first night they are at the vacation house?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Salad.
(c) Hamburgers.
(d) Stew.

12. What school did Ruth used to work at?
(a) Dalton.
(b) Wind.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Riner.

13. What happens to Clay in Chapter 16?
(a) He hits a rabbit with the car.
(b) He faints.
(c) He gets lost.
(d) He has a heart attack.

14. How does Amanda feel about taking calls from work on vacation?
(a) She is angry about it.
(b) The calls make her feel sad.
(c) The calls make her feel important.
(d) She is indifferent about it.

15. What does Clay do for a living?
(a) He is a software engineer.
(b) He is a professor.
(c) He is an architect.
(d) He is a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is at the door in Chapter 7?

2. What does Amanda call Rose that Rose dislikes?

3. What does the man on the porch offer to Clay and Amanda in return for staying at the house?

4. What is Amanda's job title?

5. Who had G.H. and Ruth finished the basement for?

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