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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ellery's twin brother?

2. With whom are the twins going to stay while their mother is away?

3. Which Fright Farm employee offers to put in a good words for the twins in Chapter Four?

4. Malcolm hopes which individual can give his older brother a job?

5. According to Ellery in Chapter Eight, her favorite necklace is secretly what object?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the second act of vandalism? Where does it occur? Who discovers it?

2. What does the reader learn about Sadie, the twins' mother, in Chapter One?

3. What do Ellery and Nana discuss regarding Ellery's future in Chapter Eight?

4. What information do the twins get from the yearbooks in Chapter Ten?

5. What strange occurrence do Malcolm and Mia observe in Chapter Eleven?

6. What favor does Katrin ask of Malcolm in Chapter Eleven?

7. Where do Malcolm and Mia follow Daisy in Chapter Eleven?

8. Who are Mia and Daisy? What does the reader learn about them in Chapter Five?

9. What news does Ryan Rodriguez deliver in Chapter Fifteen? How does Ellery respond?

10. What odd comments does Brooke make to Malcolm in Chapter Fourteen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the importance of the setting to the novel. How is the town’s name of Echo Ridge symbolic of the issues happening in the town? How does the setting influence the novel’s plot, characters, and themes?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, Two Can Keep a Secret. How does the title reflect the main characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Who was behind the murders in Echo Ridge? Who was behind the vandalism? What were the motives for these crimes? How do these crimes (and their perpetrators) say about the idea of crime and punishment?

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