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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the basement of Old Central look like in Chapter 38?
(a) It is filled with spiders webs and insects.
(b) Its walls are covered in a red spongy matter.
(c) It is covered in green slime and gray matter.
(d) Just as it usually did.

2. Who disappears from his bed in Chapter 30?
(a) The Sheriff.
(b) Mr. Sperling.
(c) Father Cavanaugh.
(d) Mr. McBride.

3. How did William Campbell Philips die?
(a) Of influenza.
(b) Of old age.
(c) By a gun shot wound.
(d) He was hung.

4. How many burrowers circle Kevin in Chapter 38?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

5. What does Mike glimpse in the back of the rendering truck in Chapter 33?
(a) Mounds of slime.
(b) Human remains.
(c) A stockpile of weapons.
(d) Giant insects.

6. What does Mike see Van Skye reach for behind him in Chapter 33?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A pair of binoculars.
(c) An axe.
(d) A pack of cigarettes.

7. What does Lawrence drop on the floor in Chapter 36?
(a) His comic.
(b) His toothbrush.
(c) His baseball cards.
(d) His yo-yo.

8. How are Dale and Jim able to resist their attackers in Chapter 41?
(a) Dale and Jim spray holy water on their attackers.
(b) Mike's entrance distracts the attackers.
(c) Jim kicks the attackers to the ground.
(d) Dale and Jim crawl through a small hole in the wall.

9. Who is Wink?
(a) The school's former principal.
(b) The town drunk.
(c) The former sheriff.
(d) The old post master.

10. Who appears to help Kevin in Chapter 38.
(a) Jim.
(b) Mike.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Cordie.

11. What do the boys decide to retrieve from the McBride farm in Chapter 25?
(a) Duane's notebooks.
(b) Duane's ashes.
(c) Duane's backpack.
(d) Duane's gun.

12. What does Mr. Ashley-Montague tell Dale happened to the man suspected of the murders?
(a) He was found innocent.
(b) He was found murdered.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He fled the state.

13. Who is Mike advised to ask about the soldier?
(a) A priest.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) Mrs. Moon.
(d) The librarian.

14. Where do the boys flee at the end of Chapter 29?
(a) A prearranged safe spot.
(b) Back to their houses.
(c) To the Cave.
(d) To higher ground.

15. When delirious with fever, who does Mike imagine he is conversing with?
(a) Duane.
(b) Tubby.
(c) His mother.
(d) Mrs. Duggan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who admitted to planting evidence on the executed man?

2. Who makes a love confession to Mike in Chapter 30?

3. Where was the man tried for the murders around 1900 executed?

4. Where do the boys go after freeing Lawrence in Chapter 41?

5. What does Cordie Cooke tell Jim in Chapter 23?

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