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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 does Trip do when faced with the headmaster one afternoon after returning from his car?
(a) He dashes to the bathroom.
(b) He walks right by him.
(c) He turns and leaves school.
(d) He ducks into the wrong classroom.

2. What do the girls order to help them escape their boredom?
(a) Catalogues.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Books.
(d) Records.

3. What do the Lisbons do with the flowers they receive?
(a) They give them to hospital patients.
(b) They leave them to rot.
(c) They put them in vases.
(d) They dry them.

4. What do the Lisbons and Trip watch on TV?
(a) The news.
(b) Baseball.
(c) A concert.
(d) A Disney program.

5. How does Therese communicate with the outside world?
(a) Her ham radio.
(b) She meets a friend in her backyard.
(c) The telephone.
(d) A pen pal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose car do the boys take to the dance?

2. When the boys get to the Lisbon house, who is waiting for them?

3. What do the boys clean off the Lisbons' house?

4. What does Mr. Lisbon often bring home for his daughters?

5. What is Lux's real reason for going to the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Lisbons deal with their friends' and neighbors' offers of sympathy?

2. Why is Lux taken by ambulance to the hospital?

3. Describe Mr. Lisbon's vision of a ghost.

4. How does Mr. Lisbon's behavior at school change after Cecilia's suicide?

5. How do the boys spend the early part of the evening on June 15?

6. Describe Mary Lisbon's favorite way to pass time during the imprisonment.

7. Describe three ways in which the Lisbon girls tried to contact the boys.

8. Describe the state of the Lisbon house in Chapter 4.

9. What signs did the Lisbon girls show of rejoining the community?

10. Why is Trip so flummoxed by his attraction to Lux?

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