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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 gets beaten up after the bully is threatened in Chapter 4?
(a) Sue.
(b) Tom.
(c) Julie.
(d) Jack.
2. Who does not cry as they wait to tell the others about Mother's death?
(a) Julie.
(b) Sue.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jack.
3. 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.
4. Which child actually brings friends home to play?
(a) Jack.
(b) Tom.
(c) Sue.
(d) Julie.
5. Why is Jack told to stop his activity in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) It's an invasion of privacy.
(b) Mother is getting a headache.
(c) It isn't fair.
(d) No one wants to see him.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who gives up teeth brushing to rebel?
2. What is Julie afraid of after Mother's death?
3. Who ridicules the person who refuses to watch Julie in her extracurricular activities?
4. As Mother's illness worsens, who maintains the house?
5. Why does the sibling begin to resist the family game?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the garden after Father's first heart attack?
2. What does the family do to celebrate Jack's birthday?
3. What do Jack's parents argue about in Chapter 1? What does his mother demand and what is his father's reaction?
4. What do Jack and his sisters do for fun on the night their parents argue in Chapter 1?
5. What does Mother talk to Jack about one morning when she awakens him?
6. How do the siblings tell Tom that Mother has died?
7. When and why does the sexual game the three siblings play stop?
8. What, specifically, do Jack and Julie do to provide Mother with an eternal resting place?
9. What happens when Tom points out his bully to Jack?
10. Why does the whole family attack Father verbally over a decision he made regarding Julie's extracurricular activities?
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