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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 fixes Jake's suit?
(a) Ariel.
(b) Frank.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Ruth.

2. Where do Nathan and Gus finally find Travis Klement once they locate him?
(a) At a bar in Mankato.
(b) In the church basement.
(c) At the fire station.
(d) In the attic of his own house.

3. What reason does Warren Redstone cite for the 1862 attack on the white settlers by the Sioux tribe?
(a) Because the Sioux were starving and had been denied food promised them in a treaty.
(b) Because the Sioux had discovered the white settlers' use of smallpox-infected blankets to kill their tribe members.
(c) Because the Sioux realized that the white settlers wanted to own land the Sioux had occupied for centuries.
(d) Because the white settlers had attacked the Sioux first.

4. Who touches Lise and sends her into a screaming fit after Emil attempted suicide?
(a) One of the firemen who arrive at the scene.
(b) Nathan.
(c) One of the policemen who arrive at the scene.
(d) Frank.

5. Who arrives at Emil and Lise's house moments after the firemen have left with Emil?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Axel.
(c) Karl.
(d) Ariel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Frank and Jake always go after they are done with their grandfather's yard work?

2. Why is the new Bremen bank a source of fascination for Frank?

3. How many children do Axel and Julia Brandt have?

4. What is the name that some people in town call Jake and that Frank calls him as well when he is angry?

5. What two words does Emil keep repeating once he returns home from the private hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Frank and Jake go just before Bobby Cole's funeral, and how does Jake's suit sleeve get ripped?

2. What is revealed about the difference between Frank's and Jake's characters in the moment when they are invited by Gus and Officer Doyle to set off fireworks?

3. What is the outcome of Nathan's and Gus' search for Travis Klement, the man they know to have beaten his wife and son?

4. What is the situation that results in Frank, Jake, and Nathan going to the jail in the middle of the night?

5. How does Frank feel about his older sister Ariel?

6. How does Axel's request of Jake at the hospital reveal differences between Frank and Jake?

7. How does Frank convince his dad to give him the tire iron for the boys' walk home from the jail and what do they subsequently do with it?

8. How does the scene at the old rock quarry reveal themes of adolescent sexuality through Frank's character?

9. How does Officer Doyle's search of Warren Redstone's lean-to sway the reader's opinion of Warren Redstone's character?

10. What messages is the reader meant to absorb from the conversation between Frank and Warren Redstone in the O'Keefes' basement?

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