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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 does Sal notice about her father in the garage when she returns home?
(a) He was crying.
(b) He was lazy.
(c) He was angry.
(d) He was laughing.

2. What does Phoebe do all weekend at Sal's house?
(a) Makes jokes.
(b) Cries.
(c) Yells.
(d) Complains.

3. What changes as they travel through South Dakota towards the Badlands?
(a) The whispers.
(b) The weather.
(c) Their route.
(d) Drivers.

4. Who teaches Sal how to drive?
(a) Gran.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Gramps.
(d) Her father.

5. Where does Phoebe say her mother went to while in England?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) Big Ben.
(c) Shakespeare's birthplace.
(d) The Tower of London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sal's mother leave for her when she left?

2. How is Phoebe's journal decorated?

3. What was drawn inside the shape of the drawing that Sal thought was Phoebe's?

4. What is the real age of Phoebe's father?

5. About how old is the young man who rings Phoebe's doorbell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it significant that Ben and Sal draw the same thing in class?

2. What evidence does Phoebe present to Sergeant Bickle as proof that her mother was kidnapped?

3. Describe the atmosphere in Madison, Wisconsin.

4. Why were Grandparents Hiddle arrested, and what does this show about them?

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

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

7. Why did both Sal and Phoebe lie about where their mothers were when they first left?

8. Why was the fact that Sugar cut her long hair important?

9. What is the significance of Gram and Gramps' marriage bed?

10. Why does Sal's father allow Sal to go on the car trip with her grandparents?

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