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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 Josie find in the house that she wants to wear?
(a) Hat.
(b) Boots.
(c) Coat.
(d) Gloves.

2. What sound does Hollis hear as she stands outside in the cold?
(a) A motorcycle.
(b) A motorboat.
(c) A snowmobile.
(d) A chain saw.

3. Josie says that she wishes Hollis could ______________________.
(a) call Beatrice.
(b) take her back home.
(c) learn to drive.
(d) see herself like Josie sees her.

4. Which of the following is NOT something Hollis does when she and Josie get into the house?
(a) Turns on the lights.
(b) Makes a phone call.
(c) Turns on the heat.
(d) Builds a fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these factors is NOT something Hollis worries about for the trip with Josie?

2. Who does Hollis meet as she is walking to town to call Beatrice?

3. What does Hollis see move on the opposite bank of the river?

4. Why is the girl in Hollis' Thirteenth Picture, the Conference Room not Hollis?

5. What has Hollis done in the house the last few days?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hollis show that she truly has Josie's best interests in mind?

2. What does Hollis draw for the Eighth Picture, End of Summer, when the Regans tell her they want her to be part of their family?

3. 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?

4. What gifts do Hollis and Josie give each other for Christmas?

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

6. Describe Hollis' Twelfth Picture, A Mountain of Trouble, depicting the events of the truck accident on the mountain.

7. How do Hollis and Josie prepare for Christmas Eve at the summer house?

8. What item was Hollis sick about leaving behind when she had left the Regans' house and how does she feel when she realizes that it is still in her room?

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

10. 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?

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