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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mother try to help Joley sleep?
(a) She buys him a television to watch.
(b) She sings him a lullabye.
(c) She buys Joley a machine that plays water sounds.
(d) She gives him sleeping pills.

2. How does Oliver confidently form a plan to track Jane and Rebecca?
(a) He hires a private investigator.
(b) He uses the same techniques he uses to track whales.
(c) He called the police.
(d) He tracks Jane's cell phone.

3. Where do Sam, Joley, and Hadley live?
(a) In the Big Barn.
(b) In the Big House.
(c) In the Barn House.
(d) In the House Barn.

4. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?
(a) They shop.
(b) They go out to dinner.
(c) They see a movie.
(d) They drive.

5. What does Sam's mother do with all the photos before the surgery?
(a) She tears them up.
(b) She burns them.
(c) She puts them in a scrapbook.
(d) She frames them.

6. Why does Emily invite Sam to a party?
(a) To embarrass her ex-boyfriend.
(b) To help him make friends.
(c) To show him off.
(d) To introduce him to friends.

7. How is Hadley treating Rebecca the day after Rebecca confided her life story to him?
(a) He talks to her.
(b) He is kind to her.
(c) He follows her around.
(d) He is avoiding her.

8. Where does Rebecca recall tagging along with her mother after the plane crash?
(a) Group therapy sessions for those who have suffered from trauma.
(b) Group therapy sessions for plane crash survivors.
(c) Group therapy sessions for abused women.
(d) Group therapy sessions for single mothers.

9. On July 25, 1990, fifteen-year-old Rebecca is hitchhiking to Hadley's mother's home alone on a rainy night with whom?
(a) Hadley.
(b) Two lecherous truckers.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Sam.

10. At a diner, how do Jane and Rebecca introduce themselves?
(a) As Jane and Rebecca.
(b) As Janet and Rachel.
(c) As sisters.
(d) As Lila and Pearl.

11. Why does Joley believe this is why she was spared?
(a) Fate.
(b) Luck.
(c) God loves her.
(d) Only souls at peace can go to heaven.

12. Emotionally repressed Oliver attempts to get back to work by doing what?
(a) Drafting an article on humpback whales for the Journal of Mammology.
(b) Working in a zoo.
(c) Setting up meetings with other researchers.
(d) Heading to the east coast to observe whales.

13. In his instructions for the next leg of the journey, where does Joley direct Jane?
(a) To Lincoln.
(b) To Salt Lake City.
(c) To Denver.
(d) To Las Vegas.

14. With what was Sam fascinated when he was a child?
(a) His brother's broken gramophone.
(b) His father's broken gramophone.
(c) His mother's broken gramophone.
(d) His sister's broken gramophone.

15. In his second letter to Jane, about what does Joley write?
(a) His memories of school.
(b) His memories of when he and Jane were teenagers.
(c) His memories when he was nine and Jane was thirteen and he would sneak into her room at night while their parents fought.
(d) His memories of their trip last summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Jane and Rebecca's roles reversed?

2. Does Jane feel loss or grief about her father's death?

3. What does Jane do when she spots Joley?

4. What would their father do when he came home drunk?

5. What does Hadley explain to Rebecca about Sam?

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