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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does young Jack fake illness to leave school?
(a) To miss a test.
(b) To get out of doing an oral book report.
(c) To have his mother's full attention.
(d) Because kids were bullying him.

2. What does Jack do after the ambulance takes his father?
(a) Follows the ambulance on foot.
(b) Hitches a ride to the hospital with a neighbor.
(c) Goes to eat lunch.
(d) Smoothes the concrete ripple caused by his father.

3. Who wants Jack to strip to be examined to play the sex game?
(a) Tom.
(b) Father.
(c) Julie.
(d) Sue.

4. How does the garden look to Jack at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Decayed.
(b) Spectacular.
(c) A little wilted.
(d) Promising.

5. How old was Jack when he faked illness to leave school?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who thinks Mother is relieved that Father died?

2. What is Sue's hobby?

3. Who pulls on the sleeve of Mother's nightgown after she is dead?

4. How many heart attacks does Jack's father have?

5. Who says there should be a funeral for Mother?

(see the answer key)

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