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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. How many “missions” had Charlie Manx and Bing Partridge completed together before Charlie was incarcerated?
(a) 9.
(b) 20.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

2. What word does the ratty girl covered in blood say as Lou and Wayne smash the ornaments in “Come All Ye Faithful, October”?
(a) “Pomoshch.”
(b) “Raleigh.”
(c) “Checkmate.”
(d) “Noel.”

3. How many years has it been since Bing Partridge has put on his gas mask when he appears in 2001 in "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

4. What does the narrator say Wayne’s favorite thing is about the carriage house at the vacation home by the Lake in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?
(a) That it has bats.
(b) That is has Wi-Fi.
(c) That it has cobwebs.
(d) That it has horses.

5. Who is the Denver neurosurgeon that is quoted in the article that Bing reads about Charlie Manx’s illness in "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"?
(a) Tommy Priest.
(b) Nathan Demeter.
(c) Marc Sopher.
(d) Hank Tulowitzki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say that Wayne had seen a landslide the last summer while he and his father were towing a Mercedes in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?

2. What does the nurse say Louis Carmody has been diagnosed with in "Christmasland, July 7-9"?

3. How old does Sigmund de Zoet say his wife is in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?

4. What lake is Vic referring to when she suggests to her mother, “We should go someplace for the summer. We could rent a place up on The Lake, like we used to,” in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?

5. Where does Bing Partridge read an article about the deterioration of Charlie Manx’s health in "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting of "Come All Ye Faithful, October"? What information is revealed to the reader in the opening of this chapter?

2. How does Vic respond when Maggie appears on her doorstep in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?

3. What is Sigmund de Zoet doing when his character is introduced in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"?

4. What does Bing do at the church by his house in "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"?

5. Where is Vic living in the opening of "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"? Who is she living with?

6. Who is the first of the children from Christmasland that calls Vic in "Interlude: The Spirit of Ecstasy, 2000-2012"? What does this character say?

7. Where does Vic travel to via the Shorter Way Bridge after she leaves Bing’s home in "Christmasland, July 7-9"? What does she learn here?

8. What actions does Vic take inside Christmasland in "Triumph One Eternal, Christmas Eve"?

9. Where do Vic and Wayne spend the summer in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012"? How is the setting described?

10. Whom does Vic speak with on the telephone while she’s in Bing’s basement in "Christmasland, July 7-9"?

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