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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. Which of the theories do the people in town not offer up?
(a) Dolores should not have done her own maintenance on the bus
(b) There should not have been water in the sand pit
(c) The state should have put up guardrails
(d) Dolores needs help for alcohol abuse

2. What is the relationship between Billy and Risa after the bus crash?
(a) Almost like strangers
(b) Enemies
(c) Torrid lovers
(d) Best of friends

3. Where is Dolores' bus kept?
(a) Truck stop
(b) School lot
(c) Barn
(d) City garage

4. What beverage does Dolores drink in the bus?
(a) Coffee
(b) Water
(c) Tea
(d) Coke

5. The story is told from the perspective of how many narrators?
(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the Ansel twins?

2. How many children from the family in #14 get on the bus?

3. Where had the wrecked school bus been parked?

4. Most people in town say that __________________________.

5. How does Billy deal with his grief?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dolores' job and how long has she been doing it?

2. What brought Mitchell Stephenson to the town of Sam Dent?

3. What is Mitchell Stephenson's opinion about the bus crash being an accident?

4. Explain Billy's relationship with death.

5. What are the reactions when Nichole lies about Dolores on the witness stand?

6. Why is Billy a ghost in his own house?

7. What is Mitchell Stephenson's first impression of the town of Sam Dent?

8. What are the weather conditions on that fateful day?

9. From whose perspective is Chapter 2 written?

10. How does Dolores describe the Lamston kids?

(see the answer keys)

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