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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys notice coming from the school building and heading into the grounds?
(a) A spark of fire.
(b) Ground overturned in furrows.
(c) A strange rodent.
(d) A tunnel of smoke.

2. Who is Van Syke?
(a) The school janitor.
(b) The science teacher.
(c) The English teacher.
(d) The vice-principal.

3. What is the Cave?
(a) A secret hidehout near the playground.
(b) A fort.
(c) A drainage tunnel.
(d) A restaurant.

4. What stops working in the Stewarts' basement?
(a) The telephone.
(b) The water heater.
(c) The sump pump.
(d) The alarm system.

5. What does Jim find between his sheets when he returns home in Chapter 22?
(a) Insects.
(b) Slime.
(c) A note.
(d) A dead body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jim follow Mrs. Doubbet to?

2. Where does Van Skye have a part time job?

3. What does Duane want to be when he grows up?

4. What does Dale's brother think he hears as they pass the Old Central grounds?

5. Where does Duane run to escape the truck which chases him in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mrs. Cooke arguing with the sheriff and Dr. Roon about when the boys arrive at the school in Chapter 5?

2. Where are the Stewart boys heading and what do think they hear as they are walking to the center of town in Chapter 7?

3. Why does Congden insist Van Syke was not the driver of the truck that attacked Duane?

4. Where do the boys meet to discuss Tubby's disappearance, and what do they decide to do? What gets dropped into the water while they are meeting?

5. What does Sandra Whittaker tell the boys in Chapter 5?

6. What does Dale see when he goes into his flooded basement to replace a blown fuse?

7. What do the students suddenly hear at the school, and how does Principal Roon explain the sound?

8. In Chapter 22, what causes Jim to remember what he saw through the school window at the beginning of the summer?

9. What do the boys notice on the school grounds in Chapter 5?

10. Where do Dale and Lawrence discover new furrows in Chapter 15? What happens while they are taking a closer look at one of them?

(see the answer keys)

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