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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. What do people usually say when they return videos to Video Hut according to the start of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) People usually say, "This video does not work."
(b) People usually say, "This video was so boring."
(c) People usually say, "Thank you!"
(d) People usually do not say anything.

2. What is different about Jeremy's copy of the video,"Targets" in Part One?
(a) Jeremy's copy has two scenes not present in the original video.
(b) Jeremy's copy has one scene not present in the original video.
(c) Jeremy's copy shows a scene with a crying woman.
(d) Jeremy's copy is broken, and he cannot figure out how to play it.

3. What is the puzzling timecode stamp on the video, "She's All That"?
(a) 01/01/2001.
(b) 01/01/2000.
(c) 00/00/0000.
(d) 00/00/XXXX.

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 look at the shed, because her father is building a toolshed himself.
(b) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because Sarah Jane used to live there.
(c) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because it is in one of Video Huts videos.
(d) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed for a college project.

5. Where does Jeremy meet Stephanie to discuss Sarah Jane's returned videos?
(a) Video Hut.
(b) Gregory's.
(c) Jeremy's house.
(d) Stephanie's parents' house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the picture Sarah Jane shows Lisa Sample?

2. What beginning statement(s) does Steve finally write in his journal in Part One, Chapter 9?

3. When does Jeremy's mother, Linda, die according to Steve in Part One, Chapter 9?

4. What is Sarah Jane's first conclusion after watching one of the video's unusual scenes in Part One, Chapter 5?

5. How can Stephanie's demeanor be characterized during her meeting with Jeremy about the similarity of the videos?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Part One, Chapter 2, Jeremy describes the tone of winter. What specifically does he say about it? How is his description metaphorical?

2. How does Jeremy feel about holiday conversations as described in Part One, Chapter 2?

3. When Sarah Jane drives to Video Hut from Collins, why does she want to arrive first?

4. How does Steve approach and question Jeremy about his new girlfriend, Shauna?

5. In Part One, Chapter 6, what version of events does the narrator say happened, even though the novel says that Sarah Jane tells Jeremy a different story?

6. Why does Jeremy think that his father, Steve, is truly fixing the gutter during the day when Jeremy returns home from work?

7. Why does Jeremy act casually about Steve having a new girlfriend?

8. How does Lisa Sample answer Sarah Jane's questions about the farmhouse and the woman in the snapshot? What does Sarah Jane think after she leaves the farmhouse?

9. What reasons does Jeremy have for driving home from work in the evening instead of letting his boss, Sarah Jane, close the store for him?

10. What does Jeremy do after his father goes to sleep at the end of Part One, Chapter 4? Why does he do it?

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