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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. Why is Jeremy's father, Steve, so inquisitive about Ezra's car accident?
(a) Steve wants to know if the car accident was similar to Linda, his wife's, car accident.
(b) Ezra is such a good friend of Jeremy's, and Steve is concerned.
(c) Steve is close with Ezra's parents, and so he wants him to be safe.
(d) Ezra drinks, and Steve wonders if that is why he crashed his car.

2. Where does Irene put the tract she receives from the homeless man?
(a) Inside her jacket pocket, where it stays for months.
(b) Inside a beautiful glass jewelry box.
(c) Inside "anything drawer" at the house.
(d) At the bottom of her sock drawer.

3. What hopeful, but unlikely, situation does the narrator portray in regards to Irene and Lisa at the start of Part Three?
(a) Irene calls Lisa and they are together again.
(b) Irene falls in love with Michael Christoper and marries him.
(c) Irene never contacts Peter or Lisa again, and that Irene is happier with her new life.
(d) Irene returns to Peter and Lisa, and they are a family again.

4. What do the police say to Peter when he shows them Irene's card in Part Two, Chapter 6?
(a) "I'm sure that she will be home soon. This happens all the time" (132).
(b) "We can't help you" (132).
(c) "This really isn't much to go on" (132).
(d) "We need to wait 72 hours before we do anything" (132).

5. What purchase does Lisa ask her father, Peter, to make?
(a) Lisa wants Peter to take her to Omaha to buy new clothes.
(b) Lisa wants Peter to take the family on vacation.
(c) Lisa wants Peter to buy a new lawn mower.
(d) Lisa wants Peter to purchase her a new bicycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though it was none of his business, what does Jeremy ask Sarah Jane after they leave the scene of the accident at the start of Part Three?

2. What game is Irene trying to teach Lisa at the start of Part Two, Chapter 2?

3. What is printed inside the Christmas card Lisa leaves?

4. Where does Jeremy tell his father Ezra was at after his car accident?

5. Where does Lisa say that these other people from the videos went in Part Three, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sarah Jane truly concerned about Ezra's car accident?

2. How and why does Sarah Jane justify not providing Jeremy access to the phone at the farmhouse after Ezra's accident?

3. Using the quote, "...when she'd [Irene] gave no indication that anything unusual had happened or was about to happen or would continue happening without interruption in the days to follow" (127), what might the reader assume about Irene's disappearance?

4. How is Peter Sample's life described at the start of Part Two, Chapter 1? Do not use the exact information provided, but make inferences that can be drawn. Write in your own words.

5. When Irene leaves Bible study early and tells Peter it is because the others did not like the question she is asking, what sort of questions is Irene most likely asking that are controversial?

6. Why are Jeremy and Stephanie surprised to meet Lisa on her porch when they travel there in the middle of the night?

7. Why does Jeremy relate a weekend in Vegas to what happens to him at Lisa house in Part Three, Chapter 4?

8. How does Lisa explain her reasoning to Sarah Jane for taking the videos and adding the scenes into the movies?

9. In Part Three, Chapter 1, what are the two versions of where Irene may be according to the narrator? How do the different stories leave out any definite information?

10. How does Lisa initially respond to her mother's disappearance?

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