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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Ben not seem to get?
(a) His teacher's attention.
(b) Recognition from his classmates.
(c) Good grades.
(d) His father's approval.

2. What did Calli's kindergarten teacher think of Calli at first?
(a) She was easily distracted.
(b) She was not very smart.
(c) She was shy.
(d) She was stubborn.

3. What does Calli do as her father is taking her there?
(a) She screams.
(b) She is totally limp.
(c) She has an accident.
(d) She kicks him.

4. What lures Calli out of her hiding place?
(a) A fawn.
(b) A girl's scream.
(c) A kitten.
(d) Hunger.

5. Why doesn't Calli want to do what she needs to do badly?
(a) There is no hot water.
(b) Her mama is crying.
(c) Her father will see her.
(d) It is dark and she's scared.

6. Of whom does the image of the little girl remind Louis?
(a) His niece.
(b) Someone he fell in love with when he was a child.
(c) His granddaughter.
(d) His own daughter.

7. Why do the police have to conduct detailed interviews?
(a) To establish a suspect.
(b) So they don't waste time hunting in the wrong direction.
(c) To establish a motive.
(d) To look as though they are making progress.

8. What demonstrates Calli's love of the woods?
(a) Her ability to find her way in the dark in the woods.
(b) Her books.
(c) Her desire to be a girl scout.
(d) Her box of treasures.

9. What does Calli's father say to her when she goes to the bathroom?
(a) Tells her to get her room cleaned.
(b) Calls her a retard.
(c) He is pleasant and asks her how she is.
(d) Tells her she better do better in school that day.

10. Of what does Louis get jealous?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Griff.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Ben.

11. Why did Griff sometimes beat on Ben?
(a) To make Calli scared.
(b) To prove that he could.
(c) To make Calli talk.
(d) To show who is superior.

12. How long has it been since the girl has spoken?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

13. What is happening to Fielda?
(a) She is becoming detached from Martin.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is visibly falling apart.
(d) She is getting ill.

14. What does Calli know as far as wood lore?
(a) How to avoid the strange man.
(b) What the different animal tracks are.
(c) What to eat and what to avoid.
(d) How to avoid her father.

15. What does Calli do when her father is drinking?
(a) Runs to Willow Creek Woods.
(b) Hides under her bed.
(c) Goes to her friend's house.
(d) Hides in the garage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonia do despite her not appreciating the police techniques?

2. Why does Calli consider climbing out the window?

3. What does Martin do?

4. What does Calli not like about her teachers?

5. What does Griff know about Louis?

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