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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. Where do the boys go from the belfry in Chapter 41?
(a) To the Cave.
(b) To their homes.
(c) To the roof of the school.
(d) To the basement.

6. Who will the boys blame for stealing Mr. Grumbacher's truck?
(a) C.J. Congen.
(b) Father Cavanaugh.
(c) Dr. Roon.
(d) Mrs. Doubbet.

7. What does Kevin fill with liquid in Chapter 37?
(a) Balloons.
(b) A tub sitting in a wheelbarrow.
(c) Three large cooking pots.
(d) His father's milk truck.

8. How will the boys be able to keep in touch with each other at night in Chapter 35?
(a) By short-wave radio.
(b) By walkie-talkie.
(c) By fireworks and smoke signals.
(d) By telephone.

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

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

11. 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.

12. What do the boys devise a plan to destroy in Chapter 32?
(a) The tunnels around town.
(b) Van Skye's shed.
(c) The rendering truck.
(d) The belfry.

13. What is set on fire in Chapter 40?
(a) Fireworks.
(b) A stack of old school files.
(c) A desk.
(d) A burrower.

14. What emerges from the soldier's mouth when it attacks the priest?
(a) Maggots.
(b) Worms.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Flies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is William Campbell Philips described?

2. When Mike goes to Mrs. Moon, what does he discover?

3. On what pretext do the boys leave town in Chapter 29?

4. Who is Mike advised to ask about the soldier?

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

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