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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 insists on sealing the trunk?
(a) Jack.
(b) Julie.
(c) Sue.
(d) Derek.

2. When jealous over Julie's boyfriend, who does Jack ask to play the sex game?
(a) Julie.
(b) Tom.
(c) Sue.
(d) Derek.

3. Who was tied to a brass cot two years ago when their parents left them alone for a short while?
(a) Sue.
(b) Tom.
(c) Jack.
(d) Julie.

4. What does Julie encourage Jack to put in his mouth when they are hugging in Tom's room?
(a) A toy.
(b) A pacifier.
(c) Her thumb.
(d) Her nipple.

5. Why do the girls dress up Tom?
(a) Julie thinks it will make him happy.
(b) Just to harass him.
(c) To trick Jack.
(d) To teach him a lesson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Derek coming over in Chapter 7?

2. What do the children eat for a week after their mother dies?

3. Where does Derek take Jack to play?

4. What positive effect does the smell of Jack's hands have?

5. What do the siblings hear at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jack's recurring nightmare.

2. How does the book end?

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

4. Discuss the owners of the pool hall's relationship with Derek. Why does he play for free?

5. What sense does Jack experience after his mother's death? What does he say is lacking from that sense?

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

7. Three weeks after Mother's death, how does Sue spend her time?

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

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

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

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