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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old does Max judge Girl to be after examining her?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

3. Ellie and Peanut seize upon the idea to enlist whose help in the quest to identify Girl?
(a) Max.
(b) Earl.
(c) Cal.
(d) Julia.

4. How many dollars per hour is Julia said to make in her psychiatric practice?
(a) $200.
(b) $50.
(c) $75.
(d) $100.

5. 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) "Why her?" (46)
(b) "I'm sorry" (46).
(c) "Forgive me" (46).
(d) "Please don't" (46).

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

7. Why do people in Rain Valley often go silent when Cal's wife Lisa is mentioned?
(a) She is chronically unfaithful.
(b) She is a kleptomaniac.
(c) She has bipolar disorder.
(d) She is a compulsive liar.

8. 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) 10 or 11.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 6 or 7.
(d) 4 or 5.

9. Ellie recalls which of her family members praising her singing voice?
(a) Her maternal aunt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father.

10. Julia's mother, the person named as the only one who "had believed in a bright future for Julia," (50) had not lived long enough to see which milestone in Julia's life?
(a) Her graduation from high school.
(b) Her first steps.
(c) Her wedding.
(d) Her graduation from medical school.

11. What action does Alice take the first time she sees herself in a mirror?
(a) She hides under the bed.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She cries out for Julia.
(d) She punches the mirror.

12. At what type of meeting did Julia's former patient Amber open fire with an automatic weapon?
(a) A church youth group meeting.
(b) A school board meeting.
(c) A dance committee meeting.
(d) A school administration meeting.

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

14. Who rushes into the police station to say that Ellie must come to Magnolia Street right away?
(a) Sandra.
(b) Marge.
(c) Julia.
(d) Lori.

15. What action does Alice take once she can reach her entire arm out the window in her new room?
(a) She smiles.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She howls.
(d) She faints.

Short Answer Questions

1. The sight of what instrument in her old childhood home causes her to be "blindsided by a memory" (61) of her mother?

2. Who radios Ellie to tell her to come to Chief Sealth City Park once she reaches Magnolia Street and sees nothing?

3. In what way does Julia attempt to tame Alice's hair?

4. How many pounds has Ellie's best female friend gained in the few years prior to the novel's opening?

5. Both Ellie and Julia know "that the overwhelming number of child abductions" (94) are perpetrated in what way?

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