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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. Who is the author of the poem that Maggie gives to Vic in "The Librarian, 1991"?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

2. What is the name of the driver that is supposed to pick up Marta Gregorski and her mother but never shows in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?
(a) Roger Sillman.
(b) Tommy Priest.
(c) Bing Partridge.
(d) Nathan Demeter.

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

4. What is Charlie Manx’s full name in the novel?
(a) Charles Winston Manx II.
(b) Charles Edward Manx IV.
(c) Charles Talent Manx III.
(d) Charles Winthrop Manx, Jr.

5. What church is seen from the windows of Bing Partridge’s home in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
(a) The First Baptist Church of Haverhill.
(b) The Wilma Church of Latter Day Saints.
(c) The Second Street Methodist Assembly.
(d) The New American Faith Tabernacle Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Nurse Thornton’s son who she is considering buying a video game system for in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

2. Where does Charlie Manx take Bing to buy him a soda in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

3. What does Charlie Manx call the frozen cemetery that he takes Bing to visit in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

4. When Vic comes home to find her mother crying in "Disappearances, 1991-1996," her mother says that the girl Vic’s father has been sleeping with is how old?

5. When Maggie first meets Vic in "The Librarian, 1991," she asks Vic if her bridge crosses to the other side of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bing Partridge live and work, according to the narrator in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

2. How does Nurse Thornton react to Manx’s “awakening” in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"? What do the doctors observe of his condition?

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

4. What does Vic go in search of when she crosses the Shorter Way Bridge and finds the Library in "The Librarian, 1991"?

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

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

7. What are Vic’s first impressions of the house that she finds at “The Other End of the Bridge” in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

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

9. What gift does Bing recall getting from his father for Christmas in "Spicy Menace, 1990"? What did his father tell him about the gift?

10. How are the trees and car described that Vic encounters on “The Other End of the Bridge” in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

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