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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 are Wardell Parrish and Rosalee Payne related?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are married.
(c) They are twins.
(d) They are father and daughter.

2. Who starts the fire in the neighborhood?
(a) Joanne Garfield.
(b) Harry Balter.
(c) Tracy Dunn.
(d) Amy Dunn.

3. How does Keith get out of the gates?
(a) Lauren lets him out.
(b) He jumps the fence.
(c) He steals his mother's key.
(d) He goes out with his father.

4. Who becomes pregnant in the neighborhood?
(a) Bianca Montoya.
(b) Lauren.
(c) Joanne.
(d) Aura Moss.

5. What does Lauren plan to do for Amy?
(a) Buy her a puppy.
(b) Throw her a birthday party.
(c) Run away with her.
(d) Give her more food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lauren's sermon about?

2. How many children live in the Yannis household?

3. Who wins the Presidential election?

4. What is Lauren's stepmother's first language?

5. Where does Lauren plan to go when she leaves the neighborhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are some families opposed to having guns?

2. What "family business" does Lauren's father believe in keeping private?

3. Why doesn't the emergency bell ring when the neighborhood is attacked?

4. Describe Lauren's dream.

5. What does Lauren think is the best thing that happens to Bianca and Jorge?

6. Why doesn't anyone bother calling the fire department after the fire?

7. Why do Aura Moss and Michael Talcott leave their classes?

8. Why doesn't Bankole want to bury the bones initially?

9. Why do some people think it is a waste to go to Mars?

10. Why does Lauren call President Donner a "human banister"?

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