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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Amanda ask Clay to do in Chapter 26 as an emergency measure?
(a) Buy more food.
(b) Tape the windows shut.
(c) Fill bathtubs with water.
(d) Grow a garden.

2. What does G.H. say he will do before Clay and Amanda leave the house?
(a) Give their cash back.
(b) Give them food.
(c) Give them a hug.
(d) Give them a phone.

3. Where does Clay think about going to dinner that night in Chapter 20?
(a) The Italian place on Broadway.
(b) The Thai place on 31st.
(c) The French place on Atlantic.
(d) The Vietnamese Place on Island.

4. What do Rose and Archie discover during their time in the woods by the house?
(a) A neighboring house next door.
(b) A dead human body.
(c) A dead deer.
(d) A spaceship.

5. What does Ruth tell Amanda she cannot do for her?
(a) Comfort her.
(b) Love her.
(c) Baby her.
(d) Shelter her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Archie wish he had brought with him in Chapter 21?

2. In Chapter 31, what do the adults do in the beginning?

3. In Chapter 28, what do the adults talk about at dinner?

4. Where do Amanda's parents live?

5. In Chapter 34, who goes missing?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 26, what happens to Archie?

2. What happens to Archie in the woods that he does not even feel but that the narrator notes?

3. In Chapter 24, what does Clay tell the adults at the house about his trip to town?

4. In Chapter 29, what is Clay's and Amanda's attitude on what they think will be their last night in the house?

5. In Chapter 23, what does G.H. suggest is the source of the unsettling thing that happens that even he does not believe?

6. In Chapter 22, what happens that startles and upsets everyone?

7. How does Clay react to the Spanish-speaking woman who approaches him in Chapter 20?

8. In Chapter 18, what does Ruth most desire?

9. In Chapter 23, what do Ruth and G.H. note is unusual about their surroundings?

10. What is the main reason Clay gets lost in Chapter 20?

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