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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is hanging around Mrs. Moon's bedroom when Mike visits?
(a) Charms to ward off evil.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Her dead cats.
(d) Hundreds of spiders.

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

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

4. Who or what does Mike come across in the tunnel after several hundred yards in Chapter 38?
(a) A burrowing creature.
(b) A cave in.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Mr. Roon.

5. What do the boys buy in Chapter 35?
(a) Masks.
(b) Marbles.
(c) Squirt guns.
(d) Fireworks.

6. Where does Wink usually sleep?
(a) In the park.
(b) Outside the library.
(c) At the Cave.
(d) Under the town grandstand.

7. When Mike goes to Mrs. Moon, what does he discover?
(a) She is in a coma.
(b) She has been kidnapped.
(c) She is suffering from dimensia.
(d) She is dead.

8. What had the boys used as decoys in Chapter 29?
(a) Dummies.
(b) Stuffed animals.
(c) Shop mannequins.
(d) Cardboard cutouts.

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

10. Where did Cordie shoot Dr. Roon?
(a) In the arm.
(b) In the leg.
(c) In the chest.
(d) In the foot.

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

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

13. What did Mr. Ashley Jr. do after his father's death?
(a) Buried the family treasure.
(b) Left the country.
(c) Held a bizarre funeral.
(d) Burned the family house down.

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

15. What is within the bell in Chapter 41?
(a) A swarm of insects.
(b) Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(c) A glowing, pulsating sac.
(d) Tubby Cooke.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Dale and Jim able to resist their attackers in Chapter 41?

2. What does Jim retrieve from the closet in Chapter 23?

3. How will the boys be able to keep in touch with each other at night in Chapter 35?

4. According to Cordie, what do the men who killed Tubby and Duane want?

5. Where does C.J. Congden drive Dale and Jim in Chapter 27?

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