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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. Where is Jack's mother in his nightmare?
(a) Under a bunch of empty cement bags.
(b) Lying in bed with him.
(c) Sitting in an armchair.
(d) Sitting on his bed.

2. Who does Jack want to read his book?
(a) Julie.
(b) Derek.
(c) Julie and Sue.
(d) Tom and his friends.

3. What does Sue's diary say about Jack?
(a) She admires him.
(b) He is the best brother a girl could have.
(c) He is violent and dirty.
(d) She doesn't understand him.

4. Who has been waiting about an hour to play Derek in pool?
(a) Jack.
(b) Chas.
(c) Greg.
(d) The owner.

5. What do Jack's hands begin to smell like in Chapter 9?
(a) Old fish.
(b) Soured milk.
(c) Rotten meat.
(d) Cardboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jack try to talk to about his nightmare?

2. How does Julie say she mentally feels when she goes into the cellar?

3. What does Tom eat constantly after his mother dies?

4. Who insists on sealing the trunk?

5. While in the cellar in Chapter 7, what is it that Jack has forgotten?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circumstances (and location) in which Derek first meets Julie's siblings.

2. What is Derek's solution to covering the rotting smell? What do the kids tell him the smell is?

3. Three weeks after Mother's death, how does Jack spend his time?

4. Discuss the siblings' eating habits for the week following their mother's death.

5. What inconsistency of story does Jack alert to Derek after the frog incident in the garden?

6. What is Jack's science fiction novel about and what question does Jack pose regarding it?

7. What is the conversation Derek has with the siblings over tea, after sealing the cracked cement?

8. What is the conversation between Derek and Jack as they leave the pool hall?

9. How does Jack get a terrible sunburn?

10. When he asks to do so, why won't Sue let Jack read excerpts from her diary?

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