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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cissy make Ruby promise?
(a) To not tell Spencer about Gray Wolf.
(b) To help her escape.
(c) To take her away.
(d) To save the baby.

2. How does Cissy wish she'd met her husband?
(a) By a lake.
(b) Through her family.
(c) That she'd grown up with him.
(d) Any way that would separate her from her father.

3. In the beginning of chapter two, Lucy is trying to hide from something she sees in her room. What does she pretend to be?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A snake.
(c) A doll.
(d) A turtle.

4. When Spencer awakes in the nursing home, what does he hear?
(a) Construction work.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A baby crying.
(d) Music.

5. What information does Eve O'Donnell not want to tell Ross, the ghost hunter?
(a) That she is scared of her basement.
(b) That she had a sister who died at 7 years of age.
(c) That she knows he almost died.
(d) That she is a widow.

6. What outside game does Ethan play at night?
(a) He rides his bike.
(b) He runs.
(c) He plays baseball.
(d) He skateboards.

7. What does Ross think Az is the first time he meets him?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A young man.
(c) A gypsy.
(d) An animal.

8. What does Lia say she is doing when she meets Ross?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Picking flowers.
(c) Sleepwalking.
(d) Sewing a dress.

9. What does Ross ask Eli to do with the 70 year old investigation of the death of Cissy Pike?
(a) Research the case.
(b) Meet Cissy Pike.
(c) Talk to the judge about an extension.
(d) Re-open the case.

10. What is so special about the Ethan Allen Club?
(a) It is very romantic.
(b) It is a great place to watch the sunset.
(c) It serves the best food in town.
(d) It overlooks a beautiful mountain.

11. What saying does Cissy think of as she looks at the mental patients?
(a) "There but for the grace of God go I."
(b) "Hell on earth."
(c) "My sisters."
(d) "They should be locked away."

12. Who does Cissy and Spencer meet at the celebration in Burlington?
(a) Cissy's father, Harry Beaumont.
(b) Cissy's sister.
(c) Gray Wolf.
(d) Mrs. Astor.

13. What is the reporter, Kerrigan Klieg of the New York Times, known for?
(a) Celebrity gossip.
(b) Sports articles.
(c) Fluff pieces that are human interest.
(d) Being a real go-getter.

14. Why did Spencer Pike decide to stop heralding the pedigree charts as the main thrust of the Vermont eugenics movement?
(a) 3 members of the state legislature and the lieutenant governor were linked to a family on the chart.
(b) Cissy is linked to gypsies from Maine.
(c) Ruby is an Abenaki Indian.
(d) 3 members of his own family are found in the charts.

15. Why do mothers in Comtosook wake their children in the middle of the night?
(a) To see the moon rise over the lake.
(b) To play outside in the moonlight.
(c) To see the roses bloom at midnight.
(d) To see the sun come at at 3 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What falls out of the sky and hits Ross' leg one night?

2. Instead of going to the Klifa Club, what does Cissy do?

3. What physical affliction does Lucy suffer from?

4. When Cissy slips away from her husband during the celebration, where does she go?

5. How old is Lucy Oliver?

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