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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 recreational drug has Vic recently ingested in the opening of "Sleigh House, 1996"?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Cocaine.

2. What is the name of Vic’s best friend in childhood in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?
(a) Sallie.
(b) Maggie.
(c) Willa.
(d) Jennifer.

3. What does the store owner hit Charlie Manx with in the face as he tries to break up the scuffle in the end of "Sleigh House, 1996"?
(a) A fire extinguisher.
(b) The barrel of a shotgun.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A rolling pin.

4. The “Spicy Menace” issue that Bing Partridge is looking at in the beginning of "Spicy Menace, 1990" was issued in what year?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1978.

5. How many feet long is the Shorter Way Bridge said to be in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 200.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the café that Vic McQueen finds herself at when she first crosses the Shorter Way Bridge in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?

2. What is the name of Jeff Haddon’s Springer spaniel that he takes for a walk in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

3. What kind of bicycle does Vic McQueen love and own in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?

4. The black-and-white photograph that Vic goes in search of in "The Librarian, 1991" shows a little boy and a woman. Who is the little boy?

5. Where is Rory McCombers abducted from in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Vic when she returns from the Library across the Shorter Way Bridge in "The Librarian, 1991"?

2. What causes the argument between Vic and her mother when Vic has started high school in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

3. How does Maggie introduce herself and the setting where Vic has arrived in "The Librarian, 1991"?

4. What is Vic McQueen doing when her character is first introduced in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?

5. How does the narrator describe the lost object that Vic goes in search of in the beginning of "The Librarian, 1991"?

6. Whose disappearance is described first in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"? Where does this abduction take place?

7. How does the narrator describe Charlie Manx’s history in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

8. What does the narrator remark about the experiences of the drivers in the first two abductions in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

9. How does the narrator describe Maggie’s appearance in "The Librarian, 1991"?

10. How are the deaths of Bing’s parents described in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

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