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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Richard give for not wanting to enter the tent in the desert?
(a) Pye is trying to get them back to another dimension.
(b) He thinks he's made a mistake.
(c) He'd rather visit with Tink.
(d) The seaplane is sinking.

2. What is the name of the hotel Richard and Leslie have landed in when they see their younger selves?
(a) Holiday Inn.
(b) Marriott Hotel.
(c) Comfort Inn.
(d) Crowne Plaza.

3. What color sport coat is the younger Richard wearing in the hotel when Richard talks with him?
(a) Green.
(b) Camel-colored.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

4. In what government agency does Ivan work?
(a) Labor.
(b) Environment.
(c) Budget.
(d) Aviation.

5. How much time does Richard estimate they have left to fly the plane when the fuel gauge is not working at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Six hours.
(b) Twenty minutes.
(c) Forty minutes.
(d) Two hours.

6. How do Leslie and Richard feel without Pye in the seaplane?
(a) Sleepy.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relaxed.

7. What does Tink give Leslie and Richard after they land the seaplane?
(a) Hard hats.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Boots.

8. What does Pye say that Richard and Leslie need in order to get back home?
(a) Luck.
(b) Leslie's strong connection to her home.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Richard's ability to fix the plane.

9. How many people might young Richard kill if he flies the plane that drops a hydrogen bomb in 1962?
(a) Nine hundred thousand.
(b) Twenty thousand.
(c) Sixty thousand.
(d) Thirteen hundred.

10. What is the Conover Agency?
(a) Government agency.
(b) Insurance agency.
(c) Modeling agency.
(d) Detective agency.

11. Why does Richard want to splash into the ocean to wash Growly off?
(a) He hopes the water will stain it blue.
(b) Symbolic cleansing.
(c) It has blood on it.
(d) The sea salt will make it shine.

12. What is the tent made of that Richard and Leslie see when they land in a desert?
(a) Leather and cloth.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Bark.
(d) Tree limbs and pine branches.

13. Who walks out of the elevator at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Friends from years ago.
(b) Hotel owners.
(c) Leslie's parents.
(d) An alternate Richard and Leslie on the day they first met.

14. How does Richard describe the factory he and Leslie land in?
(a) Overtime in hell.
(b) Watery and moldy.
(c) A beautiful place.
(d) Cold and joyless.

15. What does the girl in Chapter 6 say she hates?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Being hungry.
(c) Rainy days.
(d) Whining.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pye wearing?

2. What does the younger Leslie do when she gets off an elevator in Chapter 3?

3. What runs through Leslie's body in the hotel hallway?

4. What nickname does Richard call Leslie in Chapter 8?

5. What does Ivan say Communists like?

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