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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. How do Sally and Gillian differ from each other?
(a) Their basic personalities.
(b) They are the same except for what they like to wear.
(c) They are almost exactly alike in all ways.
(d) What they like to eat, though everything else is similar.

2. What happens one night when Sally is in bed?
(a) The furnace dies.
(b) There is a knock on the door.
(c) The refrigerator breaks down.
(d) The heater heater overflows.

3. To what does Sally attribute her recent feelings?
(a) That she has just received a big promotion.
(b) Reports about her sister Gillian.
(c) The new man down the street.
(d) The feeling that something disasterous is about to happen.

4. What does Gillian think she got from Jimmy?
(a) What she deserved.
(b) Continual grief.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A sense of the macabre.

5. What does Kylie see around everyone as they are shouting?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Colors.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem is Jimmy currently having?

2. What happens when the man in the backyard exhales?

3. What happened at a rest stop in New Jersey?

4. Who is Scott Morrison?

5. How does Sally cope with the situation at her new school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Sally marry, what children does she have and what are those children like?

2. Where do Sally and Gillian go to live and why?

3. What does Gillian learn about Ben and how do the other women in town feel about him?

4. What does Sally see as she is leaving the pizza parlor and how does she feel about it?

5. What do the children in the town mothers do?

6. What does Gillian tell Sally about her boyfriend, Jimmy?

7. What happens in school that makes the children believe Sally is a witch?

8. Why does Gillian leave the aunts' home and what does she tell Sally?

9. What do Sally and Gillian fight about that causes Kylie to tell them about the man in the backyard?

10. How does Antonia get to know Scott Morrison?

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