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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. To whom is Alice referring when the narration from her perspective describes a certain person as "Sun Hair" (165)?
(a) Peanut.
(b) Max.
(c) Julia.
(d) Ellie.

2. What activity does Ellie suggest the advice-seeker take once per day in order to build a bond with Alice?
(a) Give Alice a bath.
(b) Read Alice a story.
(c) Bring Alice a blue sweater.
(d) Bring Alice a red sweater.

3. What is the verdict from the person who comes to conduct a home visit with Alice and Julia?
(a) She recommends that Alice be placed in a psychiatric facility.
(b) She recommends that Alice be placed in foster care.
(c) She recommends that Alice be placed with Julia.
(d) She says that she has decided to stand mute on the matter.

4. To what location does Julia go after she and Ellie are done with their conversation in Chapter 14?
(a) Her father's favorite fishing hole.
(b) Ellie's room.
(c) The room she shares with Alice.
(d) Max's house.

5. What milestone in their relationship do Max and Julia reach at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) They have a sexual encounter.
(b) They go for a walk along Lovers' Lane.
(c) They kiss.
(d) They say 'I love you.'

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Max react to Julia's decision to leave his house at the end of Chapter 17?

2. What mental phrase does Alice use to describe speech?

3. At the end of the Chapter 12, Julia tells Alice that what element "is everything" (171)?

4. What action taken by the media causes Ellie to think that they will soon drop all coverage of Alice's story?

5. When Ellie points out to Julia the slow progress they are making toward their goal of identifying Alice, Julia says that she had made how many positive milestones that day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ellie try to cheer up Cal's daughters on Christmas evening?

2. What triumph does Julia report to Max when she goes to visit him in Chapter 17?

3. What is revealed to be the reason behind Alice's fear of making noise?

4. What common ground do Ellie and Julia find in Chapter 12?

5. In what ways does Julia exhibit changes in her demeanor at the same time as Alice makes rapid progress?

6. What does Ellie's choice of porch chair in Chapter 13 tell Julia about her state of mind?

7. What situation within Chapter 14 cause Max to feel real fear "for the first time in seven years" (189)?

8. What two words does Alice think in Chapter 20 upon becoming "lost in the sea of faces and bodies" (278)?

9. What coping mechanisms does Max use to cope with his dark mood on Christmas day?

10. What knowledge is described as "building in Julia, filling her lungs like a slow-growing case of pneumonia" (203)?

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