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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. How does the barn fire start?
(a) Sunlight hitting a convex piece of glass.
(b) Embers from a campfire.
(c) A cigarette butt that isn't extinguished.
(d) A magic trick gone awry.

2. Where does Loretta go with her children while Howard is gone?
(a) Back to Detroit.
(b) Nowhere; she stays with Mrs. Wendall.
(c) Overseas to be with Howard.
(d) To Texas, to start a new life.

3. Who cooks and waits up for Pat every night?
(a) Betty.
(b) Loretta.
(c) Maureen.
(d) No one.

4. What does Jules dream of when looking at maps and books?
(a) Joining the circus.
(b) Getting away from Detroit one day.
(c) Becoming a pirate.
(d) Staying in Detroit to help his mother.

5. What type of child is Betty?
(a) Cheerful and loving.
(b) A child of the streets at an early age.
(c) Helpful and cooperative around the house.
(d) Independent and responsible.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what condition does Jules find Bernard?

2. Who is Bernard Geffen?

3. How does Loretta feel about Mrs. Wendall?

4. Why is Jules almost killed in Children of Silence, Chapter 9?

5. What does Jules want to do with his own children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Loretta think about her relationship with her children while she is in the shelter?

2. Why is Jim re-evaluating his relationship with his current wife?

3. How does Loretta meet Howard?

4. How does Jules meet Bernard?

5. As a young adult, what is Maureen's escape from her everyday life?

6. What has changed about Maureen as a result of her catatonia?

7. How does Loretta react when Maureen tells her about Jim?

8. What happens to Mrs. Wendall after Howard's death?

9. What is Maureen's situation at the beginning of the third book?

10. What does Jules do while trying to perform a magic trick for Maureen?

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