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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 is the setting of Chapter 7?
(a) The book doesn't say.
(b) In the restaurant in Sunset Towers.
(c) In the game room of Westing House.
(d) In the lawyer's office.

2. What was strange about the Will?
(a) It had not been witnessed.
(b) It divided everything evenly between all heirs, including the kids.
(c) The kids were the only ones inheriting anything.
(d) It anticipated what the others would do and also gave a command for fulfillment.

3. Why did Mr. Hoo laugh when Mrs. Wexler said Turtle was helping Dr. Wexler with his bookkeeping?
(a) Because Dr. Wexler was a bookie.
(b) He didn't think Dr. Wexler had enough patients to need a bookkeeper.
(c) He knew Dr. Wexler was with another woman.
(d) Turtle was too young to know about bookkeeping.

4. What new job did Mrs. Wexler acquire?
(a) Cook for Hoo's restaurant.
(b) Wedding hostess.
(c) Seating hostess for Hoo's restaurant.
(d) Bookkeeper for her husband's business

5. What name did Turtle tell Flora was her real name?
(a) Alice.
(b) Sybil.
(c) Roaslie.
(d) Abigail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem with Turtle's and Flora's investigation by Chapter 15?

2. What lie did Judge Ford catch Mrs. Wexler in at the party?

3. What did Turtle think the expression, "Take stock in America," meant from the Will?

4. What important clue did Theo give Angela?

5. When E.J. Plum started the reading of the Will, what do readers find out about why the residents of Sunset Towers were included in the Will?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mr. Hoo laugh when Grace suggested that her husband was doing his bookkeeping?

2. Why did Angela search under the hoods of the cars in the parking lot?

3. What sort of letter did the tenants of Sunset Towers receive, and what did it instruct them to do?

4. Why did Sydelle Pulaski walk with a gaily painted crutch, and for what reason did she claim to need it?

5. What particular trait do several of the characters share making it possible that the person seen going into the mansion by Chris could be any one of them?

6. Why were the tenants purchasing so many Westing Paper Products?

7. What two unusual things happened at the supposed empty Westing Mansion?

8. Why was Mrs. Hoo missing from the group of heirs, and what did this indicate about her daily life?

9. What did Turtle mean by the expression, "Paper losses. . .doesn't mean a thing"?

10. What did the newspaperman find out about Mr. Hoo?

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