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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 makes Will jump out of the car and pace?
(a) He has a realization about life.
(b) He is worried that he will shoot himself in the car.
(c) He is suddenly afraid of the dark.
(d) He thinks he sees his father's ghost.

2. What is the one part about her new life in the greenhouse that Allison doesn't like?
(a) Always being dirty.
(b) Not having enough to eat.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Not having a job.

3. What is the morning movie the day that Will leave to go find Allison?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) M. A. S. H.
(c) Lawrence of Arabia.
(d) King Solomon's Mines.

4. Which actor's suicide did Will's father obsess over?
(a) Charlie Chaplin.
(b) Ross Alexander.
(c) Groucho Marx.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

5. Who does Allison think Will is when he first arrives at the greenhouse?
(a) An Atlantean.
(b) Dr. Duk.
(c) A hiker.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Allison wash the cave clay off of Will and his clothes?

2. What happened to Allison's father, Walter?

3. What errand does Will ask Allison to do that she's nervous about?

4. What does Bernie want Will to do?

5. How does Kitty find Will sleeping in his car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What skills do the three old guys who Will befriends in the convalescent home possess?

2. What are the two things that Will has to tell Allison when he returns to the greenhouse?

3. What psychological breakthrough does Will make as he sits in his car thinking?

4. What forces Will to leave the cave?

5. What happened to the tiger skeleton that used to be in the cave?

6. What makes Allison feel like she needs another person in her life?

7. What happens in the secret room that Jack Curl shows Will at the convalescent home?

8. What urgent message does Bernie have for Will when Will gets back home after being away in the cave and the greenhouse?

9. Why does Will get into a fight with Kitty at the nursing home?

10. What does Will take with him into the cave?

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