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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. What does Hollis notice still hanging on the guestroom wall?
(a) A picture of her.
(b) A picture of flowers.
(c) A painting of Izzy.
(d) Her drawing of Old Man's Mountain.

2. When does Hollis plan to call Beatrice?
(a) In the Spring.
(b) In the new year.
(c) On Christmas.
(d) This afternoon.

3. Which of these factors is NOT something Hollis worries about for the trip with Josie?
(a) It is very dark outside.
(b) They haven't shopped for Christmas gifts.
(c) She doesn't know how to get to the Summer house.
(d) It has started to snow.

4. Hollis recalls the morning she left Branches and her worst moment when she realizes she would never see __________________ again.
(a) Old Man's Mountain.
(b) her drawing box.
(c) the lake.
(d) her bedroom.

5. Hollis wonders what the Old Man would think about ________________________.
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Josie's statues.
(c) her spending Christmas in his house.
(d) her new drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josie find in the house that she wants to wear?

2. What is written on the cake shown in Hollis' drawing, Izzy's Cake?

3. What has occurred in Josie's drawing, A Mountain of Trouble?

4. Hollis worries that the fights between Steven and the Old Man are because of what?

5. In Chapter 14, Hollis says that the Christmas decorations are _______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hollis feel bad that Steven and the Old Man seem to fight so much?

2. Why does Hollis run away from the Regans' home after the truck accident and refuse to see any of them again?

3. How does the author show that someone knows that Hollis and Josie are staying at the Summer house?

4. What startles Hollis when she tries to fish on the riverbank?

5. How can Hollis draw her Tenth Picture, Hollis Woods, with her eyes closed?

6. Why does Hollis not ask Josie about the green sweater now hanging in the shed but which Hollis had left at the riverbank the day she saw someone on the opposite bank?

7. What clues does Hollis have that Steven is playing Santa Claus for her and Josie in the summer house?

8. How does Hollis feel when she sees Old Man's Mountain as they near the summer house, and what does she say to the Old Man in her head?

9. How does Hollis try to distract Josie who starts to get homesick?

10. What touching scene does Hollis create in her Ninth Picture, Izzy's Cake?

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