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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gideon do when he sees Kylie?
(a) Climbs the tree.
(b) Challenges her to a game of chess.
(c) Sits on the porch steps.
(d) Yells at her.

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

3. What does Sally say is the important thing about Jimmy?
(a) He will never hurt another person.
(b) He has left Gillian.
(c) He was killed in self-defense.
(d) He is out of Gary's jurisdiction.

4. How does Maria break her arm?
(a) She fell while cleaning her second story windows.
(b) Swinging on the swings in the playground.
(c) Searching a cave in the hills.
(d) Pounding on her lover's door.

5. What has sprung up in the yard in the last day?
(a) Rose bushes.
(b) Gnome statues.
(c) A dagwood tree.
(d) A growth of thorns.

6. Who doesn't show up at the meeting place where Maria keeps going?
(a) The lover.
(b) The spaceship.
(c) The Devil.
(d) The person blackmailing Maria.

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

8. How did Gary's parents die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Plane crash.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Shot in a robbery gone bad.

9. How do the townspeople treat Maria?
(a) Spitefully.
(b) Curiously.
(c) They avoided her.
(d) Reverently.

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

11. What does Gary think when he sees Sally's car?
(a) She has come to lie to him some more.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) She wants to go into his motel room.
(d) It might not be her.

12. What do the townspeople gossip about Maria?
(a) She was a demon.
(b) She was an alien.
(c) She was an angel.
(d) She was a witch.

13. What does Gillian do after Sally leaves?
(a) Packs her bag and leaves.
(b) Goes to a pawn shop to buy a gun.
(c) Makes dinner for her and the girls.
(d) Goes to bed and cries.

14. From what state has Gary come to New York?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Texas.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Arizona.

15. What do Gillian and Sally do in the moonlight?
(a) Dance.
(b) Plant flowers.
(c) Drink margaritas.
(d) Sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Maria appear in when she arrived in town?

2. What does the letter from Tucson say?

3. What does Ben talk about as Gillian is falling asleep after they make love?

4. When is Maria often seen traveling?

5. What is the first thing Sally tells Gary?

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