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

2. How old is Jack when men show up at his house with a delivery?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

3. What is distracting Jack from realizing his father's condition as the two work on a project together?
(a) Jack's headphones.
(b) Julie's bikini.
(c) A semen stain.
(d) Jack is reading instead of helping.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives a card with two pound notes as a birthday present?

2. Who is Jack?

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

4. What is the subject of the serious talk that Jack gets at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. Who tells Jack to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the family celebrate Jack's birthday and why?

2. What does the family do to celebrate Jack's birthday?

3. Why, in Chapter 2, does Jack begin to avoid Mother?

4. When the children are in the garden discussing what to now that Mother has died, what specifically do they discuss?

5. What was Jack doing and why does he run off at the end of Chapter 2?

6. What happens when Julie covers Mother's body with a sheet?

7. Why does the whole family attack Father verbally over a decision he made regarding Julie's extracurricular activities?

8. Why does Tom get picked on at school?

9. What birthday request does Jack make that gets denied by his mother?

10. What happens to the garden after Father's first heart attack?

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