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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse did John give the people at the beach for Marley's behavior at Dog Beach?
(a) He was having a bad day.
(b) He had been out in the sun too long.
(c) He was not used to crowds and got excited.
(d) He had drunk too much seawater.

2. What was Marley's response to the farm animals?
(a) He didn't care much one way or the other.
(b) He thought of them as his own pets.
(c) He chased them constantly.
(d) He was afraid of them.

3. Why did the Grogans take Marley to his last visit to the vet?
(a) He was gasping for air.
(b) His intestinal condition had returned again.
(c) He was coughing up blood.
(d) They couldn't detect a heartbeat.

4. Marley liked to wander in his later years and one night he was gone for a long time. Where did John find him?
(a) On the neighbor's porch.
(b) In the farm animal shelter.
(c) In the garage.
(d) Under the overhang.

5. How could the Grogans' new home in a northern State be described?
(a) A farmhouse by a creek.
(b) A brand new house on the edge of a village.
(c) A rambling house sitting on two acres on the side of a hill.
(d) A big bungalow on three acres.

6. What did John and Marley use to take a wild ride down their snow covered hill?
(a) A toboggan.
(b) An aluminum saucer.
(c) A sled.
(d) A large piece of cardboard.

7. What did the Grogans' neighbor warn them not to do with their farm animals?
(a) Sell them to local people.
(b) Let them roam loose.
(c) Name them.
(d) Let them near Marley.

8. In 2003 John went to a town to observe the second anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Which town did he go to?
(a) Shelbyville.
(b) Stewartsville.
(c) Sloanville.
(d) Shanksville.

9. Why were the Grogan kids disappointed with their first Christmas in their new northern home?
(a) It was twenty below zero.
(b) They got very few presents.
(c) There was no snow.
(d) They missed sunny Florida.

10. Marley got the movie audition because a film crew had just been to film the Grogan family as a typical Florida family. What was the purpose of this film?
(a) They wanted to use that information for a movie they were going to do.
(b) It was an assignment for university film students.
(c) It was part of an anthropology course.
(d) It was going to be used to promote attracting residents to the state.

11. Why did John feel a little embarrassed about moving to Boca Raton?
(a) The newspaper there had fired him a few years before.
(b) His ex-wife lived there.
(c) He had a lot of unpaid parking tickets from there.
(d) He had made fun of it in his newspaper articles.

12. How did Marley die?
(a) He died naturally at home, in John's arms.
(b) He collapsed in the vet's waiting room.
(c) He died in the car on the way to the vet's.
(d) The vet put him to sleep.

13. What had happened in that town on September 11, 2001?
(a) The FBI caught a celll of international terrorists.
(b) A jet crashed in a field there.
(c) A jet crashed into an army post.
(d) Terrorists took over the government buildings.

14. Jenny went off to Boston during summer vacation with the kids and what did John decide to do with Marley?
(a) Take him to work with him.
(b) Board him at the local kennel.
(c) Pay a teenager to let the dog out twice a day.
(d) Have a friend move in for the week.

15. How did the director want Marley to be trained for the movie he was in?
(a) He just wanted Marley to be himself.
(b) He trained Marley himself.
(c) He had two professional trainers for Marley.
(d) Marley would be tranquilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marley destroy that John had bought to celebrate the second baby's birth?

2. What was true about the majority of beaches in South Florida when the Grogans lived there?

3. What did the Grogans name their second son?

4. What did John do two months after first going to Emmaus?

5. What happens at the end of Chapter 19 that makes John rethink Marley's reactions to thunderstorms?

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