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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 do Hollis and Josie decide to do while listening to Christmas carols on the radio?
(a) Decorate for Christmas.
(b) Wrap presents.
(c) Bake Christmas cookies.
(d) Have hot chocolate.

2. Where had Izzy and the Old Man gone on the last day Hollis was with the family?
(a) A wedding.
(b) Antique shopping.
(c) New car shopping.
(d) Furniture shopping.

3. Hollis worries that the fights between Steven and the Old Man are because of what?
(a) Her presence in the home.
(b) Steven's drug use.
(c) The Old Man's illness.
(d) The Regans' talk of divorce.

4. What does Hollis see in the shed that makes her cringe?
(a) The wrecked truck.
(b) Steven's motorbike.
(c) Her fishing pole.
(d) Her water skis.

5. Who rescued Hollis when she was injured on the mountain?
(a) Steven.
(b) The Mustard Woman.
(c) Izzy.
(d) Beatrice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something Hollis does when she and Josie get into the house?

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

3. What does Hollis realize that she did not see in her drawings of the Regans?

4. How does Josie feel while listening to the Christmas music?

5. What sound does Hollis hear as she stands outside in the cold?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Hollis see for the very first time as she looks at her pictures from the Summer?

5. Describe how Hollis quickly prepares for her escape trip with Josie.

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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