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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the townspeople treat Maria?

2. What does Gillian ask Antonia and Kylie while they are in the yard?

3. What is the woman at the front desk of Gary's motel doing?

4. What has sprung up in the yard in the last day?

5. What causes Gillian to sleep more peacefully?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gillian tell their aunts about Jimmy and what is their aunts' response?

2. Why did Maria Owens attract attention when she came to Massachusetts?

3. What do Kylie and Antonia see in the backyard, what does Gillian tell them to do and what does Kylie tell Gillian about Jimmy's ring?

4. What were the rumors about Maria and why did they start?

5. What do Gillian and Sally want to do with the thorns in the backyard and what does Kylie say about their plan?

6. What does Kylie do when she is feeling lonely and confused?

7. What does Sally think about and how does she feel while waiting for Gary?

8. What do Gillian and Sally do when Gary leaves and why?

9. What does Kylie feel about going to her aunts that summer?

10. How does Sally meet Gary?

(see the answer keys)

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