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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the campus medical center get the dying man to a hospital?
(a) They don't.
(b) In a campus fire or police truck.
(c) A student's car.
(d) On a bike.

2. What was Rachel's job while Louis was in medical school?
(a) Dancer.
(b) Full time student.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Waitress.

3. Who is happy about getting the pet fixed?
(a) Rachel and Ellie.
(b) The pet.
(c) Jud.
(d) Louis.

4. How many homes has Jud lived in over the course of his lifetime?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. What perplexes Louis about the dying man in the campus clinic on the first day of school?
(a) How he could speak and how he knew Louis's name.
(b) How he arrived at the campus medical center.
(c) Why he was injured.
(d) Whether or not he stole the ambulance.

6. What does Louis find in his bed sheets?
(a) An old sock.
(b) Gage's toy car.
(c) The family pet.
(d) Dirt and pine needles.

7. Who is sick when the plane lands?
(a) Ellie.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Gage.
(d) Louis.

8. In Chapter 16, terror drives Louis to his knees when he sees...
(a) A cliff.
(b) A pile of leaves.
(c) A dark path.
(d) A writhing mass of moving bones.

9. How old is Jud?
(a) 83.
(b) 62.
(c) 38.
(d) 89.

10. Who calls Louis to come home in Chapter 14?
(a) Jud.
(b) Norma.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Ellie.

11. Who dreams that the Creed's cat died?
(a) Norma.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Louis.
(d) Rachel.

12. How does Louis feel when he returns from his first visit to Jud's house?
(a) Petty.
(b) Energized.
(c) Tired.
(d) Scared.

13. What does the dead man's father want to know?
(a) That his son is really dead.
(b) That everything possible was done to save his son.
(c) Where the ambulance was the day he died.
(d) Whether Louis has a license to practice medicine.

14. How does Rachel learn of the news about the injured jogger?
(a) She had a premonition.
(b) Through the smalltown grapevine.
(c) On the radio.
(d) On TV.

15. While Church lies purring on Gage's chest, what is happening to Gage?
(a) He's choking on his own vomit.
(b) He sleeps peacefully.
(c) His fever goes away.
(d) He's suffocating from cat fur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Louis believe Jud's ridiculous story about the Indian burial site?

2. What does Jud warn Louis about during their first evening visit?

3. Who dies after Thanksgiving dinner?

4. Who doubts the wisdom of showing Louis the burial ground?

5. Where does Louis awake in Chapter 17?

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