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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the family "game" that the siblings play?
(a) Spin the bottle.
(b) Strip poker.
(c) Naked body exams.
(d) Truth or dare.

3. Who does Jack see in the window when he returns home from school in Chapter 2?
(a) Mother.
(b) Julie.
(c) Father.
(d) The neighbor.

4. Who is mad to find that Mother has been sick for a while?
(a) Sue.
(b) Tom.
(c) Jack.
(d) Julie.

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

6. Who tells the men where to drop the delivery at Jack's house?
(a) Jack.
(b) Tom.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

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

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

9. What do Julie and Jack get as Sue waits in the kitchen with a crying Tom?
(a) A new gown for Mother.
(b) Rocks and sand.
(c) Chocolate for Tom.
(d) Wheelbarrow and shovel.

10. Who is the first to tell someone that Mother has died?
(a) Tom.
(b) Jack.
(c) Sue.
(d) Julie.

11. What color swimsuit does the sunbather wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Silver.

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

13. 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 seems depressed.
(c) She has a strange mole on her shoulder.
(d) He seems depressed.

14. What do Tom and Jack help their father move?
(a) Heavy cement blocks.
(b) Lots of weeds and debris from the garden.
(c) Bags of fertilizer.
(d) Cement bags.

15. What does Jack do with the object he finds in the garden at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Smashes concrete.
(b) Buries it.
(c) Hides it.
(d) Reads it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jack go after refusing to strip to be examined to play the sex game?

2. What are Julie's extracurricular activities?

3. Who gives up teeth brushing to rebel?

4. Who is stripped and examined by kids as part of a game?

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

(see the answer keys)

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