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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. How is Phoebe's journal decorated?
(a) With stars and rainbows.
(b) A cartoon is drawn on it.
(c) It is plain.
(d) With pictures of male models.

2. After Mrs. Winterbottom left, Sal returned to find her father slumped over what?
(a) A chair.
(b) The photo album.
(c) A new book.
(d) The stove.

3. When Phoebe goes downstairs to say goodnight to her father, what does she notice he had been doing?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Writing a letter.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Crying.

4. To what state are Sal and her grandparents traveling?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Utah.
(d) Kansas.

5. Where does Phoebe tell the girls at school her mother went?
(a) None of their business.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) A business trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Phoebe is driving Sal crazy, what does Ben think is her main problem?

2. What changes as they travel through South Dakota towards the Badlands?

3. What does Sergeant Bickle do when Phoebe presents evidence that her mother was kidnapped?

4. Phoebe demands that her father calls __________.

5. What friend of Gram's didn't want her to marry Gramps?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Phoebe think that Margaret is a murderer?

2. How does Sal react to Margaret when they first meet, and why?

3. What does Sal realize after she says that she wanted to tell Phoebe that Mrs. Winterbottom's leaving was not Phoebe's fault?

4. Why does Sal feel guilty about her mother's miscarriage?

5. How does Megan catch Phoebe in her lie about where her mother is?

6. How is Phoebe's journal decorated, and why is this important?

7. How does Phoebe act at dinner with the Finneys? Why do you think she acted this way?

8. Why do you think that the whispers changed from saying "rush, rush," to "slow down, slow down"?

9. How does Phoebe react to the Finney house, and why does she react that way?

10. Why did Sal's mother say that she felt rotten in comparison to Sal's father?

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