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

2. Who is Lisa?
(a) Cal's sister.
(b) Cal's ex-wife.
(c) Cal's daughter.
(d) Cal's wife.

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

4. With whom does Ellie recall having her first kiss beneath the same maple tree in which Girl is sitting?
(a) Earl.
(b) Max.
(c) Steve.
(d) Cal.

5. Who radios Ellie to tell her to come to Chief Sealth City Park once she reaches Magnolia Street and sees nothing?
(a) Cal.
(b) Earl.
(c) Dave.
(d) Peanut.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that for Julia, everything "in the past year, every thought and deed, led her back to" (51) what emotion?

2. Who leads the first press conference in an attempt to discover Girl's identity?

3. Which organization grants Julia the status of being Alice's temporary foster parent?

4. What is the only detail Ellie shares with Julia about the situation for which she needs help?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What coping mechanism does Julia use to deal with the feelings evoked by seeing her ballerina music box in her childhood room?

2. From whose perspective is the novel narrated when Chapter 1 opens?

3. How is the theme of isolation linked to a particular character within the narrative?

4. What is elective mutism?

5. What aspect of Max's character does Julia admit to being seduced by at the end of Chapter 11?

6. What does the piano symbolize within the narrative?

7. What is the outcome of Judge Myerson's decision regarding Julia's culpability for Amber's horrific acts?

8. Name two things the media is said to have ignored about Julia's situation.

9. Who is Amber and what had she done prior to the novel's opening?

10. What shift in narration occurs between Chapters 1 and 2?

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