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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anna lend to Ethan during his first visit to her house?
(a) A movie.
(b) A book.
(c) A cup of sugar.
(d) An mp3 player.

2. Who answers the phone when Anna calls the townhome from which the scream has originated?
(a) Alistair.
(b) Ethan.
(c) David.
(d) Jane.

3. For what purpose does Ethan first visit Anna's house?
(a) To bring her a candle from his mother.
(b) To sell magazines.
(c) To ask her to keep the noise down.
(d) To interview her for the school newspaper.

4. What nickname does Anna's husband Ed call her?
(a) Slugger.
(b) Babe.
(c) Trooper.
(d) Marshmallow.

5. What nickname does Ed call Olivia?
(a) Ping.
(b) Page.
(c) Pong.
(d) Pang.

6. What type of object is the item Dr. Fielding refers to as Anna's "secret weapon"? (31)
(a) A pill.
(b) A watch.
(c) An umbrella.
(d) A blanket.

7. For what purpose does Dr. Fielding call Anna for the first time within the narrative?
(a) To see if her back is feeling better.
(b) To tell her that her prescriptions cannot be taken with alcohol.
(c) To get her updated insurance information.
(d) To see if she is participating in physical therapy regularly.

8. Anna says that Olivia had been at an age when everything reminded her of a what?
(a) A lollipop.
(b) A dog.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A horse.

9. When Anna goes outside to try to stop the egg assault on her house, who does she ultimately realize has helped her get back inside the house?
(a) Jane Russell.
(b) The Takeda boy.
(c) Mrs. Wasserman.
(d) Ed.

10. What is the name of the dilapidated church that abuts Anna's townhome?
(a) St. Francis of Assisi.
(b) St. Cyprian.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) St. Dymphna.

11. On the ride home from the hospital the day after she witnesses Jane get stabbed, Anna remarks that if it were not for what element, she would scream until the windows shattered?
(a) Her grief about Jane.
(b) Ed's calming words.
(c) The drugs.
(d) Her extreme fatigue.

12. What instrument does the Takeda boy play?
(a) Drums.
(b) Violin.
(c) Cello.
(d) Piano.

13. Though David has been Anna's tenant for two months, what action has she never seen him take?
(a) He has never hugged her.
(b) He has never smiled.
(c) He has never shaken her hand.
(d) He has never looking her in the eye.

14. What does Olivia do when Ed and Anna break the news of their impending divorce?
(a) She runs out of the room.
(b) She calmly accepts the news.
(c) She breaks the window.
(d) She crawls under the bed.

15. What is the title of the movie Anna watches in which Ingrid Bergman plays a woman being driven insane by her husband?
(a) Double Indemnity.
(b) Rosemary's Baby.
(c) Shadow of a Doubt.
(d) Gaslight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What alcoholic drink does Anna most often imbibe?

2. To what actor does Anna compare the looks of her tenant, David?

3. For what reason do Ed and Anna agree not to tell Olivia of their divorce until after the vacation?

4. How many days after their decision to separate had Anna and Ed taken a family trip to Vermont?

5. What movie is quoted within the novel's epigraph?

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