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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 on the billboard by the freeway?
(a) A dog, an elephant and a gorilla.
(b) A child holding a balloon.
(c) A colorful circus tent and an elephant.
(d) A clown, an elephant and a gorilla.

2. How does Ivan describe gorillas?
(a) Patient as stones.
(b) Chatty like chimps.
(c) Silly like ducks.
(d) Angry like elephants.

3. What does Ivan draw with the black crayon?
(a) A rock.
(b) A rotten banana peel.
(c) A beetle.
(d) Bob.

4. Why does Gerald leave?
(a) He argued with Stella.
(b) He joins a circus.
(c) Mack cannot afford to pay him.
(d) He doesn't like animals.

5. Ivan compares Stella to what item found in nature?
(a) A rock.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A mountain.
(d) The ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan call his cage?

2. What do Ivan and Stella have in common?

3. How does Bob get inside Ivan's domain?

4. What does Mack do with Ivan's drawings?

5. What does Mack tell George to buy with the money he gives him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the picture of the gorilla on the billboard outside the mall bother Ivan?

2. Why does Mack give George money to buy new crayons for Julia?

3. How does Ivan spend his days?

4. Why did the seal die?

5. Why does Bob refer to poodles as "parasites"?

6. How did Stella's foot become injured?

7. How does Ivan compare humans to chimps?

8. What is the purpose of the billboard outside the mall?

9. What does Ivan watch on TV?

10. Why do some visitors to the mall think Ivan is lonely?

(see the answer keys)

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