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

2. Which character frightens another causing the sibling to urinate on him/herself?
(a) Tom.
(b) Julie.
(c) Sue.
(d) Jack.

3. Who refuses to watch Julie in her extracurricular activities?
(a) Derek.
(b) Father.
(c) Jack.
(d) Mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color swimsuit does the sunbather wear?

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

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

5. The day after Mother's death, who thinks they should tell someone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mother talk to Jack about one morning when she awakens him?

3. Why is Tom tired of being a boy?

4. Discuss the dialog between Julie and Jack when Julie tells him that Mother has died.

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

6. After they go back inside the house, what plans for Mother's body do the three older siblings discuss?

7. Why does Tom get picked on at school?

8. What happens when it is Jack's turn in the game he plays with his sisters on the night their parents argue in Chapter 1?

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

10. What discussion does Mother have with Jack when she calls him to her bedside?

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