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

2. Why does Van leave the trailer?
(a) Nin begins crying.
(b) He senses Jamie's unease.
(c) Patty tells him to go.
(d) He has an appointment.

3. Who does Patty think she spots at the carnival?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Van.
(c) Nin.
(d) Earl.

4. What is Patty's opinion of Mrs. Desrochers?
(a) She is a nasty person.
(b) She is a busybody.
(c) She is a strange person.
(d) She is a good person.

5. Why does Van say he has come to the trailer?
(a) He want to see Nin.
(b) He wants to stay the night.
(c) He wants to give Jamie his Christmas present.
(d) He wants to talk to Patty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Patty planned a shopping visit to?

2. What does Jamie think his mother needs for Christmas?

3. Why does Jamie feel sorry for Agnes in Chapter 5?

4. What is Jamie's impulse to feel when he first skates on the pond?

5. What does Jamie try to talk to his mother about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Chapter 9.

2. How do Jamie and Patty spend Saturday?

3. How does Mrs. Desrochers respond to Patty's defensiveness?

4. What does Jamie remember about the waiter?

5. How does the novel end?

6. How does Mrs. Desrochers support Jamie and his mother?

7. Summarize the novel.

8. How does Patty react to Jamie breaking the car handle?

9. Why doesn't Patty want to talk on the way back home with Jamie?

10. How does Earl help Patty in Chapter 9?

(see the answer keys)

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