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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Mother's illness worsens, who maintains the house?
(a) Jack and Julie.
(b) Jack and Sue.
(c) Sue and Julie.
(d) Tom and Jack.

2. Who tells Jack to clean up before eating cake?
(a) Mother.
(b) Julie.
(c) Father.
(d) Sue.

3. Where do Jack and Julie put Mother's body?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In a wheel barrow.
(c) Under a sledgehammer.
(d) In a trunk.

4. Which character hangs out with bad girls?
(a) Julie.
(b) Tom.
(c) Jack.
(d) Sue.

5. What do Jack and Julie wrap their Mother in to carry her body downstairs?
(a) A tarp.
(b) Empty cement bags.
(c) An old tent.
(d) A sheet.

6. Who finds Mother dead?
(a) Tom.
(b) Julie.
(c) Jack.
(d) Sue.

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

8. Where do Jack and Julie make cement?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In Mother's room.
(c) In the cellar.
(d) In the yard.

9. What does Jack notice about the person he sees in the window when he returns home in Chapter 2?
(a) She is prettier than he realized.
(b) She has a strange mole on her shoulder.
(c) She seems depressed.
(d) He seems depressed.

10. What is Jack doing as he plots what to do with Mother's body?
(a) Masturbating.
(b) Reading.
(c) Singing.
(d) Crying.

11. Which character says he/she is bullied by a kid at school?
(a) Jack.
(b) Julie.
(c) Sue.
(d) Tom.

12. Who ridicules the person who refuses to watch Julie in her extracurricular activities?
(a) Julie's instructor.
(b) Sue.
(c) Julie herself.
(d) The rest of the family.

13. Which of the siblings has more friends at school?
(a) Julie.
(b) Sue.
(c) Jack.
(d) Tom.

14. Who wants to invite friends over for a party?
(a) Sue.
(b) Julie.
(c) Jack.
(d) Tom.

15. In which specific extracurricular activity does Julie excel?
(a) Track.
(b) Painting.
(c) Solo.
(d) Marching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests Jack find a job?

2. Who gets beaten up after the bully is threatened in Chapter 4?

3. What color swimsuit does the sunbather wear?

4. Why does young Jack fake illness to leave school?

5. Where do the men drop the delivery they take to Jack's house?

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