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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. Which of the following does Amanda experience after the unsettling event in Chapter 22?
(a) Blood coming out of her mouth.
(b) Dry eyes.
(c) Muscle aches and pains.
(d) A taste like metal in her mouth.

2. In Chapter 34, what does G.H. offer that Ruth is not in favor of?
(a) His gun.
(b) Food.
(c) Going with Clay and Archie to the hospital.
(d) Money.

3. What does the narrator say you get a sense of in the woods?
(a) A sense of a supernatural presence.
(b) A sense of something you cannot see no matter how you try.
(c) A sense of your own mortality.
(d) A sense of danger.

4. What phrase does Ruth recall her mother saying in Chapter 18?
(a) God love them.
(b) God willing.
(c) There but for the grace of God go I.
(d) Always keep the wind at your back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 34, what does G.H. say they should do with Archie?

2. Why does Rose get startled in Chapter 19?

3. What does Ruth know she should invite Amanda to do in the end of Chapter 25?

4. What does Amanda ask Clay to do in Chapter 26 as an emergency measure?

5. What do Ruth and G.H. note is strange in its absence in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 24, what does Ruth say is the last thing she would like to hear on earth?

3. In Chapter 31, what does the narrator reveal about "the noise"?

4. Where do Rose and Archie go in Chapter 19 together?

5. In Chapter 30, what do the adults see outside that astounds them?

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

7. In Chapter 20, how does Clay feel about the vacation as he drives around, lost?

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

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

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

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