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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Buddy’s mother tells him and his sister that she’s planning on taking a retreat at a monastery just south of what town?
(a) Boston
(b) Worcester
(c) Los Angeles
(d) Mt. Shasta

2. What boy does the narrator say Leslie is “pink about” in Part One?
(a) Amos Dalton
(b) Vaughn Masterson
(c) Johnny Taylor
(d) Mickey Stallings

3. In Part Two, when Buddy meets with his dad for lunch, the narrator states, “As Buddy held up his half-filled glass, he studied his father more closely than ever before, trying to see him as a stranger would see him. The word that leaped to his mind was” what?
(a) Betrayal
(b) Ruin
(c) Sadness
(d) Pity

4. After Jane’s abduction and when the news crews begin harassing Jane and Amos for interviews, Amos’s family sweeps him off to relatives where in Part Two?
(a) Indiana
(b) Mississippi
(c) Wyoming
(d) California

5. What friend of Buddy’s does Karen bite on the hand as she attempts to flee her attackers in Part One?
(a) Mickey Pierce
(b) Randy Pierce
(c) Harry Flowers
(d) Marty Sanders

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jane’s abductor described as being on the newscast that Buddy watches in Part Two?

2. Who was the pastor at Jane’s old Methodist church in Monument, according to the narrator in Part One?

3. With whom had Buddy gone to his first dance in the ninth grade?

4. What is the label that Harry Flowers gives for the exploits of his gang in Part One?

5. Where did Harry get the fireworks that he presents to Buddy and the gang in Part One?

(see the answer key)

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