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

2. How old is Buckley when Susie dies?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

3. What items does Lindsey stroke when she enters Susie's room for the first time after her death?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Her trophies.
(c) Her clothes.
(d) Her favorite stuffed animal.

4. What does Jack try to use the board game for that the family plays at Christmas?
(a) To explain to Buckley that everyone loses something at some time.
(b) To explain to Buckley what happened to Susie.
(c) To explain to Buckley that people are really mean and greedy deep down.
(d) To explain to Buckley that life is not fair.

5. Who is Artie?
(a) A boy from Lindsey's grade at the symposium.
(b) A boy from Susie's grade at the symposium.
(c) The soccer coach at the symposium.
(d) The teacher of Lindsey's symposium class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What backyard project does Jack help Mr. Harvey with after Mr. Harvey has disposed of Susie's body?

2. What is Mr. Harvey's relationship status?

3. What picture does Lindsey find in Susie's room when she enters it for the first time after her death?

4. Where does The Lovely Bones take place?

5. What is the usual final project for the symposium students?

Short Essay Questions

1. While visiting Jack in the hospital, what does Lindsey try to do to comfort him?

2. How does Mr. Harvey react when Jack accuses him of being involved in his daughter's death?

3. After Susie's murder, Lindsey has a rough time at school. What is it about school that makes her so angry?

4. How does Susie respond to Buckley's claim that he can see her ghost?

5. What does the reader learn about Susie from how easily she goes into Mr. Harvey's secret room?

6. What first makes Susie start to think that there might be other heavens other than just her own?

7. How does Mr. Harvey dispose of Susie's body?

8. Why is the first picture Susie takes of her mother so memorable to Susie?

9. After Susie is murdered, what does Jack want desperately from his dead daughter?

10. When Samuel Heckler first meets the Salmon family, what does the reader learn about him?

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