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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. Where do the boys go after freeing Lawrence in Chapter 41?
(a) Into the school basement.
(b) Into one of the tunnels.
(c) Towards the belfry.
(d) To their treehouse.

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

3. What does Dr. Roon do to Dale at the beginning of Chapter 41?
(a) Dr. Roon puts Dale in a headlock.
(b) Dr. Roon tries to push Dale out the window.
(c) Dr. Roon locks Dale in a locker.
(d) Dr. Roon dangles Dale over the second floor banister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the boys flee at the end of Chapter 29?

2. What are the coke bottles that the boys carry in Chapter 33 filled with?

3. Who will the boys blame for stealing Mr. Grumbacher's truck?

4. What is the name of the priest Mike visits?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mike's encounter with Father Cavenaugh in Chapter 40.

2. What happens to the boys while in the belfry?

3. What does Dale take from Mr. Ashley-Montague's shelf in Chapter 28?

4. What does Cordie show the boys at the co-op in Chapter 31?

5. What plan do the boys devise in Chapter 32?

6. Why do the boys go camping in Chapter 29?

7. What does Mike discover when he goes to visit Mrs. Moon in Chapter 26?

8. What happens to the boys after Dale's mother leaves to give Dale's uncle some medicine in Chapter 36?

9. What evidence was planted on the man accused of the little girl's murder in 1900, and who planted it there?

10. What does Mike encourage Father Cavanaugh to do? What happens when Father Cavanaugh is attacked?

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