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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy do to avoid saying something dumb or insensitive?
(a) He counts in his head before speaking.
(b) He sings in his head.
(c) He speaks slowly and firmly.
(d) He rehearses.

2. Who does Crinkles resemble?
(a) Art Garfunkel.
(b) Bruce Wayne.
(c) Darth Vader.
(d) Elvis Presley.

3. What does Jimmy do for a living?
(a) He's a butcher.
(b) He's a construction worker.
(c) He's a baker.
(d) He's an electrician.

4. Where do the clowns go with the money from the bank?
(a) To the market.
(b) To the Snow Mansion.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the street.

5. How was the widow Jeeter killed?
(a) From poison.
(b) By a toppled bell tower.
(c) From shock.
(d) From a gunshot.

6. How much time is left before the bombs go off when Jimmy begins loading?
(a) Eight minutes.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) Six minutes.
(d) Twelve minutes.

7. How does Jimmy stop Punch from taking them anywhere?
(a) He throws his keys down a storm drain.
(b) He stabs him in the crotch with Lorrie's nail file.
(c) He pretends to have forgotten something inside.
(d) He takes his gun and shoots him.

8. What causes them to hit the log?
(a) A herd of deer.
(b) A raccoon.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A moose.

9. Where does Jimmy's mother think they should spend the day?
(a) In the library.
(b) At home behind locked doors.
(c) At the police station.
(d) In a public space with lots of people.

10. How does Lorrie try to get her purse?
(a) By admitting she needed hand cream.
(b) By telling him it was her time of the month.
(c) By telling him she needed medication.
(d) By saying she needed a kleenex.

11. What do the clowns blow up?
(a) The library.
(b) The tunnel.
(c) The bank door.
(d) A transformer.

12. What back issues does the killer look through?
(a) The Snow Village Times.
(b) The Snowball Gazette.
(c) The Snow Village Daily.
(d) The Snow County Gazette.

13. How many terrible days does Josef predict?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

14. Who dies just as Jimmy is born?
(a) Madelaine Tock.
(b) Rudy Tock.
(c) Konrad Beezo.
(d) Josef Tock.

15. How is this story presented?
(a) From Rudy's point of view.
(b) From Jimmy's mother's point of view.
(c) As an autobiography.
(d) Chronologically.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many died in the explosion?

2. What does Jimmy buy in preparation of the second of Grandpa Josef's terrible day predictions?

3. How does Jimmy describe himself?

4. What career change does Lorrie make?

5. What color is Honker's hair?

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