View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Lucy calls Mr. Rumford one evening, who answers the phone?
(a) Mr. Rumford's niece.
(b) The maid.
(c) Mr. Rumford.
(d) Mrs. Rumford.

3. Who is watching her relative's large horse farm where the Church has an indoor picnic?
(a) Sister Priscilla.
(b) Cicely.
(c) Bee.
(d) Mrs. Jordan.

4. Whom does Ian invite to the Church of the Second Chance's picnic?
(a) Bee and Doug.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Cicely.
(d) Jeanine.

5. How does Danny describe Lucy when he brings her home for the first time?
(a) The woman who changed his life.
(b) A friend he just met.
(c) A former girlfriend the family never knew about.
(d) Someone he met in college.

6. What does Thomas believe is the point of being Christian?
(a) To be kind.
(b) The physical and the spiritual connection.
(c) If you are good enough, you get to meet again in heaven.
(d) To be loving.

7. How do the children at the Church Day Camp feel about Sister Audrey?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Terrified.
(c) Happy.
(d) Despondent.

8. What did the church women serve for dessert at the indoor picnic?
(a) Cake.
(b) Sherbert.
(c) Mints.
(d) Fruit salad.

9. Where did Agatha and Thomas live with their biological father?
(a) With his parents.
(b) In a silver trailer.
(c) In Boise, Idaho.
(d) In a small greenhouse.

10. When the toilet overflows in Chapter Two, who is the last person to have used it?
(a) Ian.
(b) Agatha.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Lucy.

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 Claudia bake for her father's 59th birthday?
(a) A coconut cake that looks like a bathmat.
(b) A double chocolate cake.
(c) A raspberry pie.
(d) Brownies.

13. How old is Sister Audrey?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Teenager.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Middle-aged.

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

15. Why does Agatha say she can't pick up the baby, Daphne, and give her a bottle when Daphne wakes up crying?
(a) She doesn't feel comfortable.
(b) Because Thomas dropped Daphne the week before.
(c) She can't get her out of the crib.
(d) She is too small to hold a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stays at Claudia's birthday party for only a few minutes before leaving with some friends from college?

2. Where does Ian take his parents at Sumner College?

3. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?

4. Whose suit is rucked up around his ankles from static cling, so that he looks like he's wading in the ocean?

5. Who tells Thomas that he cannot look in his mother's jewelry box because he can't keep secrets?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 464 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample