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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul assume that his parents would think about him if they discovered the snow?
(a) Sad things about him.
(b) Untrue things about him.
(c) True things about him.
(d) Crazy things about him.

2. How are the doctor's eyelids as he questions Paul?
(a) Wide open.
(b) Closed.
(c) High.
(d) Low.

3. What does the snow first tell Paul to do in Part 4?
(a) Run away.
(b) Listen.
(c) Speak.
(d) Hide.

4. What is the doctor doing with his fingers, as Paul observes?
(a) Scratching his chin.
(b) Scratching the button on his coat.
(c) Scratching the top of his glasses.
(d) Scratching the side of his head.

5. When does Paul think that the snow arrives in the last part of the story?
(a) Not a moment too soon.
(b) Early.
(c) Before he is ready for it.
(d) Late.

6. How does Paul describe the presence of his parents and the doctor to himself?
(a) Saddening.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Maddening.

7. How does the doctor ask Paul to read from the book?
(a) To hold it higher than normal.
(b) To hold it upside down.
(c) To hold it lower than normal.
(d) To hold it normally.

8. What does Paul avoid during his examination?
(a) Making eye contact.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Making a mistake.
(d) Talking.

9. What does Paul eventually begin doing before he answers the doctor's questions?
(a) Coughing.
(b) Blinking rapidly.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Sighing.

10. How is the life Paul used to live labeled in the ending of the story?
(a) As another world.
(b) As a dimly lit sanctuary.
(c) As a distant light.
(d) As a far away space.

11. At the beginning of Part 4, how is the darkness coming?
(a) In sudden waves.
(b) In horrific waves.
(c) In white waves.
(d) In short waves.

12. What will the snow do once Paul joins it?
(a) Make sure that no one will interfere.
(b) Make Paul forget about how white the snow is.
(c) Make sure that everyone knows about it.
(d) Make Paul remembers the sunlight again.

13. How is the floor described in Part 4?
(a) As a large raft.
(b) As a large stage.
(c) As a little raft.
(d) As a little stage.

14. What fills the night as the author describes?
(a) A prolonged silence.
(b) A prolonged anger.
(c) A prolonged sibilance.
(d) A prolonged intrusion.

15. How does Paul consider the questions being asked of him in Part 3?
(a) Upsetting.
(b) Exciting.
(c) As a joy.
(d) As a nuisance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the snow doing as it overtakes Paul's room in the beginning of the last part?

2. From where does the snow speak to Paul as he jumps into his bed?

3. What is Paul staring at while the doctor questions him?

4. How does the snow refer to itself?

5. What does Paul's world become at the end of the story?

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