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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only detail Ellie shares with Julia about the situation for which she needs help?
(a) The case involves a child.
(b) The case involves elective mutism.
(c) The case involves paranoid schizophrenia.
(d) The case involves abandonment.

2. Ellie says that until the arrival of Girl, her most difficult policing job involved what activity?
(a) Writing speeding tickets.
(b) Hosting the annual fundraiser.
(c) Taking car keys from people at the local bar.
(d) Lecturing perpetrators of domestic violence.

3. About how old does Ellie judge Girl to be when she spies her in the top of a tree in Chief Sealth City Park?
(a) 8 or 9.
(b) 4 or 5.
(c) 6 or 7.
(d) 10 or 11.

4. When Julia decides in the middle of the night to begin writing a book, she ends up "surrounded by balled-up yellow wads of paper," (46) all of which say only which two words?
(a) "Forgive me" (46).
(b) "I'm sorry" (46).
(c) "Please don't" (46).
(d) "Why her?" (46)

5. There are seats for how many reporters at the first press conference about Girl?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 50.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julia considers herself to have grown up "in the shadow of" (50) which member of her family?

2. What main emotion does the leader of the press conference feel just before the event?

3. In what type of industry had Julia and Ellie's father worked?

4. In what state does Julia live when the narrative first begins?

5. What instrument had Ellie's father played?

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