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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What discovery appalls Julie?
(a) That her dad plans to have more children with Alicia.
(b) That Uncle Haskell has married a Mexican woman.
(c) That Aunt Cordelia is secretly seeing Jonathan.
(d) To learn that Alicia has converted the room Julie wants into an office.

2. How does Julie's luck change with the guys?
(a) She becomes a cheerleader.
(b) The proverbial "boy next door" comes home from boarding school.
(c) She meets a boy named Brett Kingsman who enrolls in school when his father is transferred to town.
(d) Her brother Chris starts attending the high school and introduces her to guys.

3. What does Brett do when he and Julie are done talking?
(a) Tries to coerce her into walking in the woods with him.
(b) Leaves immediately.
(c) Slaps her in anger.
(d) Tells her he understands.

4. Where is Uncle Haskell's body found?
(a) In his bed in the carriage house.
(b) Slumped over in a church pew.
(c) In his truck.
(d) In the water near the old creek bridge.

5. Why does Uncle Haskell need a diversion?
(a) He is dying from a brain tumor.
(b) He has been rejected by a woman he hoped to marry.
(c) He is dying from lung cancer.
(d) He is dying from cirrhosis of the liver.

6. How long is it before Julie feels happy again after the breakup with Brett?
(a) Five or six months.
(b) Two days.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two weeks.

7. About what is Julie annoyed with recent meetings with her father?
(a) That he has not mentioned her coming home.
(b) That he seems distracted and does not pay attention to her.
(c) That Alicia Allison is accompanying him.
(d) That he has canceled several scheduled visits at the last moment.

8. Why is the driver irritated with Julie?
(a) He has heard some mean rumors about her and Brett.
(b) She didn't tell him she was staying after school.
(c) She won't speak to him.
(d) He was afraid for her to walk home alone.

9. What does Julie assume Aunt Cordelia feels?
(a) Happy that she will soon no longer be burdened with raising Julie.
(b) Sadness at the prospect of Julie leaving.
(c) Excitement about having Julie for the summer months at least.
(d) Sadness about Jonathan.

10. Who picks up Julie on her way home from school?
(a) Chris.
(b) Danny.
(c) Brett.
(d) Uncle Haskell.

11. What ends after the night Brett loses his temper?
(a) Brett's passing English class ends.
(b) He ends the relationship with Julie.
(c) Uncle Haskell's respect for Brett.
(d) Aunt Cordelia treating Julie like a minor.

12. Why does Uncle Haskell call Julie down from upstairs one evening?
(a) To finish the dishes she had left in the sink.
(b) To sing a song he's been trying to remember.
(c) To help him bury some more bottles.
(d) To help him with Katy who he finds wandering in the woods.

13. What does Jonathan often have to do?
(a) Leave work to return home to console his hysterical wife.
(b) Find someone to sit with Katy.
(c) Lightly slap Katy when she is in hysterics.
(d) Give Katy calming medicine.

14. What convinces Julie to stay at Aunt Cordelia's?
(a) She walks in on Alicia and her father in an amorous embrace.
(b) She and Alicia have a fight about the office.
(c) She and her dad seem like strangers.
(d) She doesn't like to be a built-in babysitter.

15. Where does Julie anticipate moving?
(a) To the downstairs bedroom in Cordelia's home.
(b) To boarding school.
(c) Into Laura's old room at her dad's house.
(d) To her former room at her dad's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alicia want to speak to Julie after class?

2. What do Julie's feelings of alienation prompt her to do?

3. To whom does Julie turn for advice on her new hobby?

4. What does not come about as Jonathan had hoped?

5. About what is Julie wondering?

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