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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Duane's father decide to move?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Aurora.
(c) Joliet.
(d) Peoria.

4. Why does the school shake in Chapter 41?
(a) Because a pile of fireworks explodes.
(b) Because a truck crashes into the front of the school.
(c) Because an earthquake occurs.
(d) Because the bell falls to the floor.

5. Who ambushes Dale and Jim in the central foyer in Chapter 39?
(a) Mr. McBride.
(b) Father Cavanaugh.
(c) Dr. Roon.
(d) Mrs. Doubbet.

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

7. Why does Mike race upstairs and into the classroom at the end of Chapter 40?
(a) Cordie calls him for help.
(b) He hears Dale screaming.
(c) He follows Roon there.
(d) He wants to climb out through the window.

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 telephone.
(c) By fireworks and smoke signals.
(d) By walkie-talkie.

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

10. What does Dale steal from Mr. Ashley-Montague?
(a) A book.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A file of papers.
(d) A key.

11. Where will the other boys be waiting according to the plan that the boys devise in Chapter 32?
(a) At Dr. Staffney's house.
(b) The Ashley-Montague house.
(c) At the McBride farm.
(d) At Mike's chcken coop.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed in the explosion in Chapter 33?

2. Who appears to help Kevin in Chapter 38.

3. Who pulls Kevin, unconscious, away from the burning school?

4. What had the boys used as decoys in Chapter 29?

5. What does Mike see Van Skye reach for behind him in Chapter 33?

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