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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Gillian to sleep more peacefully?
(a) She works so hard she is exhausted.
(b) She is taking medicine.
(c) The picture of Maria Owens.
(d) The lilacs are no longer blooming.

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

3. What do Antonia and Kylie see in the backyard?
(a) A set of carkeys.
(b) Two books.
(c) A cowboy hat.
(d) A snakeskin boot.

4. Who is Gillian dating?
(a) Thomas Jones.
(b) Ben Frye.
(c) Gideon.
(d) No one.

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

6. What does Gillian decide to attend?
(a) Church.
(b) A Spring festival.
(c) The opera.
(d) Community College classes.

7. What does Sally do when she finds out Gary is out?
(a) Waits in the motel office.
(b) Goes and sits in her car.
(c) Leaves and comes back later.
(d) Calls Gillian.

8. What are the aunts thinking about when they arrive at Sally's home?
(a) How noble Sally is for helping her sister.
(b) How much trouble the girls are in.
(c) How messed up Gillian is.
(d) How much it meant to them to have the two girls when they were young.

9. What will change in Gideon's life with his mother's marriage?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His school.
(c) He will be moving but going to the same school.
(d) His name.

10. What does Sally do when Gary starts crying?
(a) She just sits still waiting for him to stop.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She hands him a Kleenex.
(d) She kisses him.

11. What color does Maria appear in when she arrived in town?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

12. How does Ben talk to Gillian?
(a) As if she is stupid.
(b) As if she is smart.
(c) In a slow, sexy voice.
(d) As if he is in thrall to her.

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

14. What does Sally decide to do about Gary's visit?
(a) She decides to find him and ask him out.
(b) She is going to put a spell of forgetfulness on him.
(c) She want to dig up Jimmy.
(d) She decides to find him and tell him the truth.

15. How do the girls find out Jimmy is in the backyard?
(a) When Gillian tells them the ring was his.
(b) When Jimmy appears to all three of them.
(c) When Kylie hears Jimmy talking to her.
(d) When Gillian shows them his grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gillian do with the girls when they leave the backyard?

2. Why is Gary looking for James Hawkins?

3. What does Gillian tell the girls when they ask where their mother has gone?

4. What does Gillian tell her aunts about Jimmy?

5. Why does Sally excuse herself to go get Gillian?

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