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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 one of Cecilia's major subjects near the end of the diary?
(a) Her crush on Dominic Palazzano.
(b) Baseball.
(c) The dying elm trees.
(d) Her feelings of depression.

2. What is Mrs. Lisbon serving at the party?
(a) Punch.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Soda.
(d) Cheese and crackers.

3. What does Mrs. Lisbon notice about her daughter's appearance inside the casket?
(a) Her chapped lips.
(b) Her dry skin.
(c) Her bony knees.
(d) Her bitten fingernails.

4. Which of the Lisbon girls is the first to attempt suicide?
(a) Mary.
(b) Cecilia.
(c) Therese.
(d) Lux.

5. Who is Mr. Alton?
(a) The cemetery workers' union leader.
(b) One of the paramedics.
(c) The minister at the Lisbons' church.
(d) The funeral director.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the paramedics do first upon arriving at the Lisbon house?

2. Who takes Cecilia's diary from the Lisbon house?

3. What is Mr. Lisbon's hobby?

4. Where are the scars Cecilia tried to hide?

5. Whose late arrival gives life to the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cecilia's bedroom.

2. What does Cecilia look like in her coffin?

3. What major revelation do the boys have upon entering the Lisbon girls' party?

4. How did the emergency workers retrieve Cecilia's body?

5. Describe Cecilia's ascent from the party to her bedroom.

6. How did it happen that Paul Baldino found Cecilia in the bathtub?

7. Describe a few of the changes the boys noticed at the Lisbon house after Cecilia came home from the hospital.

8. What were Mr. Lisbon's problems with the cemeteries he visited?

9. Who was Dominic Palazzano and what was his part in Cecilia's story?

10. Name three events the boys read about in Cecilia's diary.

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