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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. Who tells Jack to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Mother.
(b) Julie.
(c) Tom.
(d) Sue.

2. Who volunteers to accompany Mother on her trips to the shops?
(a) Sue.
(b) Julie.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jack.

3. Who has a serious talk with Jack at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Derek.
(b) Father.
(c) Julie.
(d) Mother.

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

5. Who begins to resist the family game?
(a) Tom.
(b) Sue.
(c) Jack.
(d) Julie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs out of the room crying when the dead mother rolls out of bed?

2. Who ridicules the person who refuses to watch Julie in her extracurricular activities?

3. In which specific extracurricular activity does Julie excel?

4. Why does the sibling begin to resist the family game?

5. What does Jack do with the object he finds in the garden at the beginning of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Tom get picked on at school?

4. What happens when Tom points out his bully to Jack?

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

6. Why is Tom tired of being a boy?

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

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

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

10. What does Julie tell Jack she imagines will happen between Father and Tom as Father's health declines?

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