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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book in Chapter 32, what can the Stele of Revealing be destroyed by?
(a) Fire and water.
(b) Flesh and blood.
(c) Air and earth.
(d) Soil and water.

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

3. Where was the man tried for the murders around 1900 executed?
(a) At the Borgia Bell.
(b) At the town hall.
(c) Outside of the school.
(d) In Peoria.

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

5. How many feet are Mike and Jim forced to jump in Chapter 41?
(a) Fifteen feet.
(b) Ten feet.
(c) Six feet.
(d) Two feet.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Which boy shadows his friends in Chapter 29?
(a) Dale.
(b) Mike.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Jim.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who plays the decoys in the plan the boys devise in Chapter 32?

2. Who approaches Mike's grandmother's window in Chapter 34?

3. What are the figures who approach the boys carrying in Chapter 29?

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

5. What is set on fire in Chapter 40?

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