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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. Why do the Indians say they stopped using their burial ground?
(a) A wendigo soured the land.
(b) Grave robbers took over.
(c) It was too windy there.
(d) It was too difficult to climb the cliff.

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

3. What is Louis warned to ignore during the trek into Indian territory?
(a) Funny shapes and voices.
(b) Elmo and goons.
(c) Ghosts of pets.
(d) Fire and laughter.

4. Who was Zelda?
(a) A creepy neighborhood lady.
(b) Louis's first cat.
(c) Jud's first dog.
(d) Rachel's sister.

5. What is the first emergency Louis tends to at his new job?
(a) A gaping hole in a man's skull with lots of bleeding.
(b) Vomiting.
(c) First day of school jitters.
(d) An eye injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jud?

2. Who dies after Thanksgiving dinner?

3. Where does the Chapter 16 visitor take Louis?

4. Who was considered a bit crazy by the locals?

5. What was the name of the Creed's pet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What alarms Louis on the first day of school as he pulls into the medical center parking lot?

2. Why doesn't Louis doubt Jud's tale about the evil powers at the Indian burial grounds?

3. What does the dead man tell Louis and why?

4. How does Louis explain to Ellie about the cat getting "fixed."

5. Who told Jud about the Indian burial ground and why?

6. What disturbs Louis about the dying man's words?

7. What grudge does Louis hold against his father-in-law and why doesn't the man like Louis?

8. Discuss two examples of foreshadowing in Chapters 6-10.

9. Why do the Creeds take an almost immediate liking to Jud?

10. What does Louis notice about the family pet after getting it neutered? What do the other family members notice?

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