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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. Where does Patty go every Tuesday?
(a) A poetry reading.
(b) A woman's meeting.
(c) Work.
(d) An AA meeting.

2. What does Patty stop asking Jamie after Wednesday?
(a) If he is too sick to go to school.
(b) If he misses Van.
(c) If he is bored of her.
(d) If he likes living in the trailer.

3. What problems does the ice cause Patty?
(a) It freezes the cornflakes.
(b) It seals the trailer door shut.
(c) It freezes the waterpipes.
(d) It freezes her car engine.

4. What does Earl tell Jamie at the end of their skating session?
(a) You area natural.
(b) A future a champion.
(c) You'll get better.
(d) You did great.

5. What terrifies Jamie more than Van?
(a) Nin's screaming.
(b) The police sirens.
(c) The farm animals.
(d) Patty's terrified face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Patty carry Jamie back to the trailer like?

2. What does Jamie do every Tuesday afternoon?

3. What does Jamie do to his mother when she gets him safely back to the trailer?

4. Why does Van leave the trailer?

5. How does Patty react when she sees Van's truck?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jamie and Patty spend the week?

2. How does Jamie react when his mother disappears down the road?

3. Why does Jamie step into the hallway in this chapter?

4. How does Patty react when she sees Van's truck?

5. What does Jamie think of Van when he sees him again in the final chapter?

6. How does Mrs. Desrochers help Jamie with a Christmas present?

7. Summarize Chapter 9.

8. How does Earl help Patty in Chapter 9?

9. How does Jamie's success at the carnival effect his mood?

10. What does Jamie fantasize in Chapter 7?

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