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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Doug Bedloe teach at the high school?
(a) Social Studies.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) English.
(d) Algebra.

2. Who wears plaid shirts, ripped jeans, and high tops held together with electrical tape to school?
(a) Cicely.
(b) Ian.
(c) Danny.
(d) Mr. Bedloe.

3. What are Thomas and Agatha doing while their mother naps in the beginning of Chapter Two?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Playing with playdough.
(c) Building legos.
(d) Coloring.

4. Whom does Doug notice on the roof, trying to pass a wire through a window?
(a) Thomas.
(b) One of the foreigners.
(c) The postman.
(d) Ian.

5. Who misses Danny because he could really talk to him?
(a) Andrew.
(b) P.J.
(c) Doug.
(d) Mr. Kit.

6. What is Waverly Street?
(a) The street where the Bedloes live.
(b) The street where Lucy and Danny live.
(c) The street next to the Bedloe's street.
(d) The street where the post office is located.

7. How does Danny kill himself?
(a) By crashing his car into a stone wall.
(b) By taking too many drugs.
(c) By getting hit by a car while walking home.
(d) By falling asleep while driving.

8. After the picnic, what does Bee admit to herself, and to Doug, about Lucy's children?
(a) She is happy they are living with her.
(b) They are all someone else's.
(c) She blames Doug for their bad behavior.
(d) One is Danny's.

9. Whose car broke down the night Danny killed himself?
(a) Cicely's
(b) Doug's.
(c) Dot's.
(d) Ian's.

10. Why does Lucy have no one to help her with her children?
(a) She has no relatives.
(b) Her standards are too high.
(c) She wants to do it herself.
(d) Her friends are busy.

11. Who wears a stiff white shirt and black pants to the Day Camp?
(a) Doug.
(b) Dr. Deaver.
(c) Reverend Emmett.
(d) Ian.

12. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?
(a) Worriers.
(b) Religious zealots.
(c) Organizers.
(d) Planners.

13. What story does Agatha tell Thomas when he complains that his mother didn't read to him before bed?
(a) Snow White.
(b) Hansel and Gretel.
(c) The Little Engine That Could.
(d) Cinderella.

14. What does Lucy die from?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Starvation.
(c) An overdose of pills.
(d) A car crash.

15. When Claudia brings a casserole to the house in Chapter Five, what does she remark on?
(a) How dirty the house is.
(b) How much cleaning there is to do.
(c) How small the house seems.
(d) How clean the house is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ian work the summer after Danny's death?

2. What did Sister Audrey leave in a dumpster?

3. Who is born on Ian's birthday, January 2?

4. Who comes to baby-sit the children during Lucy's funeral?

5. Who decides to take a leave of absence from school until Daphne is in first grade?

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