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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Spunk die?
(a) He jumps off a bridge.
(b) He has a heart attack.
(c) He is run over by a car.
(d) He is killed by the saw.

2. What words does Spunk use to describe Joe right before Spunk dies?
(a) A smart cat.
(b) A respectable figure.
(c) An evil man.
(d) A dirty sneak.

3. Who does Spunk move out of her home?
(a) Lena.
(b) His mother.
(c) Elijah's daughter.
(d) His sister.

4. Where does Spunk say he will go right after he dies?
(a) The beach.
(b) Heaven.
(c) To Joe's house.
(d) Hell.

5. Who is the character named "Jeff" in Chapter 4?
(a) Lena's new boyfriend.
(b) Elijah's brother.
(c) Spunk's son.
(d) Joe's father.

6. What does the expert in Chapter 3 say is wrong with the thing Spunk believes is moving?
(a) It has a loose screw.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It is trying to trick Spunk.
(d) There must have been an earthquake.

7. What color is the animal that comes into the house in Chapter 3?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

8. How does Spunk plan to kill the animal?
(a) With a knife.
(b) By scaring it to death.
(c) By strangling it.
(d) With a gun.

9. Who is Walter talking to in Chapter 3?
(a) Elijah.
(b) Joe's father.
(c) Himself.
(d) Lena.

10. What does the community bring to the wake?
(a) Balloons.
(b) Children.
(c) The bodies.
(d) Food.

11. What does Spunk say the animal actually is?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) Joe come back from Hell.
(c) His conscience.
(d) His dead mother.

12. What does Spunk say he felt in Chapter 4?
(a) He felt his soul leave him.
(b) He felt Joe's spirit in his house.
(c) He felt Joe push him in the saw.
(d) He felt the breath leaving his body.

13. Who says the animal must have been a "h'ant"?
(a) Walter.
(b) Joe.
(c) Spunk.
(d) Elijah.

14. Who tells the resolution of the story?
(a) Spunk.
(b) A third-person narrator.
(c) Lena.
(d) Joe.

15. Which character seems to have come out the winner in Chapter 4?
(a) Joe.
(b) Spunk.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Lena.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Spunk when he dies?

2. What is Spunk doing with the Bradley house?

3. What do people talk about in the last line of Chapter 4?

4. What are people in town doing at the beginning of Chapter 3 that is getting on Spunk's nerves?

5. Why does Spunk say Joe didn't come to his face to kill him?

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