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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Jeremy when his mother died?
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

2. At the start of the novel, who brings back the movies, "She's All That" and says it is malfunctioning?
(a) Lindsey Redinius.
(b) Lisa Sample.
(c) Ezra Collins.
(d) Sarah Jane.

3. In what year does Peter propose to Irene?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1982.

4. When Sarah Jane encounters Lisa Sample out in Collins at a farmhouse, what lie does she tell Lisa to gain access to seeing her shed?
(a) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed for a college project.
(b) Sarah Jane says she needs to look at the shed, because her father is building a toolshed himself.
(c) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because Sarah Jane used to live there.
(d) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because it is in one of Video Huts videos.

5. According to the end of Part One, Chapter 9, how does Jeremy feel about his relationship with his father in the absence of his mother?
(a) Jeremy feels that his father tries to replace his mother with other women, and it is insulting.
(b) Jeremy believes that he should be able to leave his father and experience a life somewhere far away.
(c) Jeremy feels that they have created a comfortable space, where he does not have to think much.
(d) Jeremy cannot understand why his father insists on pretending that his mother's death is not that big of a deal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does the narrator make about snakes to people on Page 62?

2. What do the police say to Peter when he shows them Irene's card in Part Two, Chapter 6?

3. Why does Ezra say Sarah Jane will not be coming to work in Part One, Chapter 7?

4. What purchase does Lisa ask her father, Peter, to make?

5. What connection do Irene and the woman discover at the movie theater?

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