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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. What does Derek do before leaving the house in Chapter 10?
(a) Breaks up the concrete.
(b) Has sex with Sue.
(c) Hits Sue.
(d) Forces sex with Julie.

2. What does the woman Jack runs into in the shops think of him?
(a) That he is lost.
(b) That he is a girl.
(c) That he is homeless.
(d) That he is adorable.

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

4. Who does Derek tell Jack that he (Jack) is like?
(a) Himself.
(b) Sue.
(c) Tom.
(d) Julie.

5. What activity stops when Jack's hands begin to smell?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Masturbating.
(c) Playing with the neighborhood cats.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julie say she feels physically when she goes into the cellar?

2. What fills the house within a week after Mother dies?

3. For what occasion did Mother and Father leave the siblings alone two years previously?

4. When they were left alone two years ago, how much time did the children take to clean up before their parents return?

5. What actually is the smell coming from Jack's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jack get a terrible sunburn?

3. Three weeks after Mother's death, Jack goes into the cellar to see the trunk. What are his thoughts as he visits the cellar?

4. What conversation does Jack have with Tom after being awakened by Tom's fake crying?

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

6. How does the book end?

7. Discuss the conversation Derek strikes up at the pool hall when he starts playing.

8. What does Derek say and how does he act when he catches Julie and Jack naked together?

9. What strange experience happens to Jack when he goes to the shops to spend his birthday money?

10. Jack thinks his hands smell like rotten meat. What does he do? What is really causing the smell?

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