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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Malcolm call in Chapter Thirty-Four?
(a) Ben Coates.
(b) Chad McNulty.
(c) Vance Puckett.
(d) Ryan Rodriguez.

2. What does Officer Rodriguez want Malcolm to do in Chapter Thirty-Two?
(a) Come into the station for questioning.
(b) Leave town for good.
(c) Go straight home.
(d) Stay with friends for awhile.

3. The broken figurine in Chapter Nineteen is an example of what literary device?
(a) Irony.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Allusion.

4. What is left running outside of the room in which Ellery and Malcolm are trapped in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) An oven.
(b) A car.
(c) An external motor.
(d) An electric generator.

5. How does Ellery convince Vance to speak to her in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) She loses a rematch to him.
(b) She shows him incriminating photos.
(c) She threatens him with going to the police.
(d) She offers him a bottle of whiskey.

6. Who rescues Ellery and Malcolm, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Declan Kelly.
(b) Ezra Corcoran.
(c) Mia Kwon.
(d) Ryan Rodriguez.

7. What does Katrin believe about Malcolm, as she tells Officer McNulty in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) That he had been lying to the police.
(b) That he had been helping Declan commit crimes.
(c) That he had hurt Brooke.
(d) That he had been secretly involved with Brooke.

8. Who encounters Ellery as she is walking alone in Chapter Thirty?
(a) Declan Kelly.
(b) Officer McNulty.
(c) Vance Puckett.
(d) Peter Nilsson.

9. To where does Ellery walk alone in Chapter Thirty?
(a) Fright Farm.
(b) The cultural center.
(c) Echo Ridge High School.
(d) Dalton's Emporium.

10. Where does Daisy hit Mia in Chapter Twenty-Four?
(a) In the head.
(b) In the arm.
(c) In the foot.
(d) In the neck.

11. Who attacks Malcolm in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) Peter and his mother.
(b) Theo and Kyle.
(c) Ezra and Ellery.
(d) Katrin and Viv.

12. Who is a search party captain, as Malcolm learns in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Theo Coolidge.
(b) Vance Puckett.
(c) Peter Nilsson.
(d) Kyle McNulty.

13. As Ellery discovers in Chapter Twenty-Five, the date on the invoice corresponds to which event?
(a) Brooke's disappearance.
(b) Lacey's murder.
(c) Mr. Bowman's death.
(d) The first act of vandalism.

14. What is the title of the article that just appeared in the Burlington Free Press in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) "A Joyful Past—and an Exciting Future."
(b) "A Deadly Past—and a Common Future."
(c) "A Mysterious Past—and a Puzzling Future."
(d) “A Tragic Past—and a Common Thread."

15. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Ezra suggest Mia do in order to get information out of her sister?
(a) Mia should bribe Daisy.
(b) Mia should search Daisy's room.
(c) Mia should blackmail Daisy.
(d) Mia should forge Daisy's signature.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Daisy in Chapter Twenty-Four, what odd piece of jewelry did Lacey have shortly before her death?

2. What does Malcolm ask Ellery to do as they are dancing in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

3. After following their target in Chapter Twenty, where does the group reconvene in Chapter Twenty-One?

4. Who is the twins' father, as revealed in Chapter Twenty-Eight?

5. Where does the target of the group's surveillance go in Chapter Twenty?

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