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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Simile.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Metaphor.

2. How does Antsy say he will get home in Chapter 11, "The Youngest Doctor in Sheepshead Bay Gets Held Hostage When He Least Expects It"?
(a) By subway.
(b) By bike.
(c) By walking.
(d) By cab.

3. What does the Night Butcher say Schwa's mother did at the meat counter on the day she disappeared?
(a) Sampled a package of shrimp.
(b) Asked what was on sale.
(c) Argued about the prices.
(d) Broke down crying.

4. Antsy remembers the Schwa when what falls on the floor from his mother's recipe cards?
(a) A pencil.
(b) A business card.
(c) A paperclip.
(d) A necklace.

5. How much money does the Schwa say he used to rent the billboard for in Chapter 18?
(a) His whole college fund.
(b) An entire summer of mowing lawns.
(c) Everything that was in his dad's wallet.
(d) The entire contents of his piggybank.

6. How old was the Schwa when his mother went missing?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

7. Who does Antsy believe will be upset when Lexie kisses him?
(a) Ira.
(b) Antsy's father.
(c) The Schwa.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

8. What does Old Man Crawley say his son wants to do in Chapter 11, "The Youngest Doctor in Sheepshead Bay Gets Held Hostage When He Least Expects It"?
(a) Go skydiving.
(b) Go back to school.
(c) Put him in a care home.
(d) Travel to Australia.

9. Whom does Lexie arrive with when she meets Antsy and his friends to test the dummy?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Antsy's father.
(c) Frankie.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

10. Whom does Antsy call from the hospital in Chapter 11?
(a) Lexie.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

11. Whom does Old Man Crawley insist ride with him in the ambulance?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Antsy.
(c) The Schwa's father.
(d) Lexie.

12. How do Antsy and the Schwa travel to an abandoned part of the city?
(a) By bus.
(b) By boat.
(c) By subway.
(d) By bicycle.

13. Whom does Lexie tell Antsy to call and invite along in the morning in Chapter 17?
(a) Howie.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) The Night Butcher.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

14. Whom does the Schwa say he is ending his friendship with in Chapter 14?
(a) Christina.
(b) Frankie.
(c) Emily.
(d) Antsy.

15. What does Lexie demand the manager of the restaurant do?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Give her a refund.
(c) Clean their table.
(d) Read the menu to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who yells that an express train is coming?

2. What club does Lexie tell Antsy she is a member of in Chapter 12?

3. Who ended up running away with Schwa's mother, according to the Night Butcher?

4. For how long did the Schwa rent the billboard?

5. Lexie tells Antsy that she has come up with an idea for giving her grandfather __________.

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