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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does not approve of Julie's extracurricular activities?
(a) Derek.
(b) Jack.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

3. Why is Jack told to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) It isn't fair.
(b) It's an invasion of privacy.
(c) Mother is getting a headache.
(d) No one wants to see him.

4. Who gives a card with two pound notes as a birthday present?
(a) Tom.
(b) Julie.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

5. Which child is not told upon arriving home from school that Mother is dead?
(a) Sue.
(b) Tom.
(c) Jack.
(d) Julie.

6. Who thinks Mother is relieved that Father died?
(a) Derek.
(b) Jack.
(c) Tom.
(d) Sue.

7. Which child leaves for school alone in Chapter 2?
(a) Sue.
(b) Jack.
(c) Derek.
(d) Tom.

8. Who is obsessed with the garden?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Julie.
(d) Jack.

9. What is Jack's father planning to make with the items that were delivered?
(a) Dinner.
(b) A wall for his garden.
(c) Taller plants.
(d) Garden paths.

10. What is Jack looking at in the garden in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Julie sunbathing.
(b) A dead frog.
(c) Gutted and abandoned pre-fab.
(d) His book.

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

12. Who gets beaten up after the bully is threatened in Chapter 4?
(a) Julie.
(b) Tom.
(c) Sue.
(d) Jack.

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

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

15. What do Sue, Julie and Jack do when the sheet won't cover Mother's head and feet?
(a) Get another one.
(b) Giggle.
(c) Scream.
(d) Cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who develops a special relationship with Mother as she gets sicker?

2. Who is Jack holding when he falls asleep on the night Mother dies?

3. Which character says he/she is bullied by a kid at school?

4. Who tells the men where to drop the delivery at Jack's house?

5. What is Father doing with Jack when he has his heart attack?

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