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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Jack walk by Mr. Harvey's house?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Several times a day.
(d) Weekly.

2. What picture does Lindsey find in Susie's room when she enters it for the first time after her death?
(a) A picture of Ray Singh.
(b) A picture of herself.
(c) A picture of their mother.
(d) A picture of Mr. Harvey.

3. Where does The Lovely Bones take place?
(a) It is never clear.
(b) A suburban area.
(c) On a ship.
(d) A major urban area.

4. Who observes Jack's surgery as he is sewn back together after being attacked in the cornfield?
(a) Abigail.
(b) Mr. Harvey.
(c) Lindsey.
(d) Susie.

5. What is the weather like when Mr. Harvey and Jack work on Mr. Harvey's backyard project in Chapter 4?
(a) There is snow on the ground.
(b) The leaves are beginning to fall all around them.
(c) The weeds and flowers are beginning to bloom in Spring.
(d) It is a very hot summer day.

6. What does Mr. Harvey look at when he cannot sleep?
(a) His mother's jewelry.
(b) His comic books.
(c) The fire in the fireplace.
(d) His father's sketchbooks.

7. Who is Ruana?
(a) Susie's aunt.
(b) Susie's teacher.
(c) The preacher's wife.
(d) Ray's mother.

8. When Buckley walks in on his mother in the bathroom, what is she eating?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Cake.
(c) Pie.
(d) Fresh berries from their backyard.

9. Why is Ruth's mother pleased to find her daughter smoking in the shed?
(a) Because she is a big fan of marijuana.
(b) Because she thinks this means Ruth has made friends.
(c) Her mother is not at all pleased to find her daughter smoking in the shed.
(d) Because at least she stopped smoking in her bedroom.

10. Where do Ruth and Ray spend a lot of time talking about Susie?
(a) At Ray's house.
(b) In the auditorium.
(c) In the cornfields where she was killed.
(d) At Ruth's house.

11. What is the character Joe Ellis usually blamed for?
(a) Litter in the cornfields.
(b) Leaving nails in the road to flatten drivers' tires.
(c) Stealing the neighbor's crops.
(d) The deaths of neighborhood animals.

12. Which family member comes to live with the Salmons after Susie's death?
(a) Grandma Lynn.
(b) Aunt Gertrude.
(c) Uncle Frank.
(d) Aunt Lynn.

13. What does Det. Fenerman believe Mr. Harvey's late wife was called?
(a) Lily.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Leah.

14. How old is Susie?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Three.

15. Who documents Lindsey and Samuel's budding relationship in a diary?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Susie.
(c) Buckley.
(d) Lindsey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who informs Susie's family that part of her body has been found?

2. What do the teachers change the final symposium project to the year Lindsey is in attendance?

3. Which character informs the reader that Susie is not the first girl Mr. Harvey has killed?

4. Who is Ruth Connors?

5. Who is Nate?

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