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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sally do when she is driving all over town?
(a) She stops at the wrong motel.
(b) She stops for groceries.
(c) She gets lost.
(d) She sees a friend and stops to talk.

2. Who gives Kylie a picture of Maria Owens for her birthday?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her great aunts.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Gillian.

3. What do the aunts tell Gillian about Ben?
(a) He is a poor magician.
(b) He is not a good liar.
(c) He has some issues but will be okay.
(d) Not to screw up her relationship with him.

4. What does Kylie say about the man in the back yard?
(a) He is no longer there.
(b) He is fading.
(c) He never was there.
(d) He is there but not so angry.

5. What does Gillian ask Antonia and Kylie while they are in the yard?
(a) If they know about Jimmy.
(b) If they knew the thorns were poisonous.
(c) If either of them found a ring.
(d) If they can sense any evil.

6. What does the letter to Gillian from Sally look like when the postman delivers it?
(a) It is coated in brown mud.
(b) It is in a hot pink envelope.
(c) Pristine, like it was mailed yesterday.
(d) No stamp and open envelope.

7. What does Kylie tell Gillian about the coming summer?
(a) They will not be going to their aunts.
(b) The gnomes will come alive on the mid-summer full moon.
(c) Their aunts are going to Europe.
(d) The roses will take over the yard.

8. What is Kylie doing when Gideon arrives at her house?
(a) Sitting under a tree.
(b) Cutting roses from the rose bushes.
(c) Reading in her room.
(d) Sitting on the front porch.

9. Who is Buddy?
(a) Ben's son.
(b) Ben's boss.
(c) Ben's brother.
(d) Ben's rabbit.

10. For what is Gary known?
(a) He likes homicide cases.
(b) He can put most men down with one punch.
(c) He is a Sunday school teacher.
(d) He is a sloppy investigator.

11. What book of Kylie's does Gillian study?
(a) Literature.
(b) Biology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Algebra.

12. What does Sally say to Gary about Jimmy?
(a) That he is dead.
(b) That he left their house in a hurry after a phone call.
(c) That he tried to kill Gillian.
(d) That he is buried in the cemetary in town.

13. What does Gary think about Gillian's answers to his questions?
(a) She is telling the truth.
(b) She is lying.
(c) She is innocent.
(d) She is afraid of Jimmy.

14. What does Kylie put in a cactus jar?
(a) The butterfly the toad spit out.
(b) The diamond the toad spit out.
(c) The piece of blond hair the toad spit out.
(d) The ring the toad spit out.

15. How well does Gideon know the man his mother is to marry?
(a) He is like an uncle.
(b) He knows him fairly well, the man teaches at Gideon's school.
(c) He has only met him a couple of times.
(d) He has never seen the man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a toad spit out in the kitchen?

2. What does Gillian do with Buddy?

3. Who does Maria follow to Massachusetts?

4. What do the townspeople gossip about Maria?

5. What is the first thing Sally tells Gary?

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