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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is William Campbell Philips described?
(a) As a charmer.
(b) As a bully.
(c) As an intelligent man.
(d) As a recluse.

2. What is the name of the priest Mike visits?
(a) Father Kelly.
(b) Father Calhoun.
(c) Father Clarkson.
(d) Father Cavanaugh.

3. Who plays the decoys in the plan the boys devise in Chapter 32?
(a) Cordie and Dale.
(b) Cordie and Mike.
(c) Dale and Lawrence.
(d) Jim and Kevin.

4. What does Kevin see appear at the end of Chapter 37?
(a) A bright light in the sky.
(b) A group of shadowy figures at town hall.
(c) A giant sinkhole in the middle of town.
(d) Two new furrows in the playground.

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

6. How many figures approach the boys in Chapter 29?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

8. How did the town come to realize that the man executed was innocent?
(a) A kidnapped child insisted he was innocent.
(b) Two more children went missing.
(c) The man's alibi was later proven true.
(d) Another man confessed to the crimes.

9. Where does Jim go with the object he gets from the closet in Chapter 23?
(a) Mike's house.
(b) The library.
(c) The woods.
(d) The baseball diamond.

10. How did Mr. Ashley Sr. die?
(a) He was kicked by a horse.
(b) He committed suicide.
(c) He died of scarlet fever.
(d) He had a heart attack.

11. Who pulls Kevin, unconscious, away from the burning school?
(a) Jim.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Dr. Staffney.
(d) Cordie.

12. What does Cordie Cooke tell Jim in Chapter 23?
(a) That her mother has gone crazy.
(b) That Duane is still alive.
(c) That Mrs. Duggan is living at her house.
(d) That her brother has returned from the dead.

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

14. Where does Mike decide to sleep in Chapter 35?
(a) At the McBride farm.
(b) In his grandmother's room.
(c) At the Stewarts'.
(d) At the Cooke house.

15. How does Mike explain Father Cavanaugh's death to the sheriff in Chapter 35?
(a) The Father was attacked by a strange creature.
(b) The Father ran in front of the truck.
(c) The Father had a heart attack.
(d) The Father was shot by Dr. Roon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Cavanaugh ask Mike for in Chapter 34?

2. Where do the boys flee at the end of Chapter 29?

3. What does Mike find on the ground in Chapter 40?

4. What are the coke bottles that the boys carry in Chapter 33 filled with?

5. How many burrowers circle Kevin in Chapter 38?

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