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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of a book Bertha gave Alex to teach her how to make patterned knots?
(a) The Macarme Bible.
(b) Lady Sylvia's Book of Macrame.
(c) Macrame Pattern Book.
(d) The Macrame Alchemist.

2. Over how many months did a special curriculum about the Mass Dragoning distributed by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, undergo major revisions?
(a) 18.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6.

3. How many husbands were swallowed during the Mass Dragoning?
(a) 18,000 or so.
(b) 4,800.
(c) 552.
(d) More than 6,000.

4. What color was Sonja's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) White-blond.
(c) Brown.
(d) Strawberry blond.

5. How old was Beatrice the summer before Alex started high school?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

6. On New Year's Eve, 1959, at how many separate holiday parties across the U.S. were reported dragonings?
(a) 750.
(b) About 800.
(c) 300.
(d) More than 600.

7. What should Bertha have received an honors distinction for when she graduated from college?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Mathmatics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Botany.

8. In June 1957, where was Dr. Gantz living when he was arrested by the police?
(a) Alexandria, VA
(b) Broadlands, VA.
(c) Bethesda, MD.
(d) Kensington, MD.

9. After Bertha's cancer returned and George took her to the hospital, how many nights were Beatrice and Alex on their own?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

10. How long had Alex's mother been gone when she met her first dragon?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) 2 years.

11. When Bertha's great-great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland, how many generations of knots were contained in the sash she wore around her waist?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

12. In 1960, where did Dr. Gantz wish to attend a scientific conference?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Prague.
(d) Havana.

13. Where were Sonja's grandparents born?
(a) Finland.
(b) Norway.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Sweden.

14. How long was Alex grounded after her father found her and Sonja in a leaf pile in Chapter 16?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

15. What type of factory was destroyed by fire only weeks after the end of World WarIi and was thought to be a dragoning?
(a) Tank.
(b) Munitions.
(c) Aircraft.
(d) Aluminium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Beatrice when she said she wanted to change into a dragon?

2. How old was Alex when her father got an apartment for her and Beatrice?

3. When did the Mass Dragoning or Day of Missing Mothers occur?

4. When Bertha remakes Alex's old school uniforms for Beatrice, how much does the dress have to be shortened?

5. When activists invaded a secretive House Subcommittee on Compensation and Resolution in January 1956, where did reports of the standoff appear in the newspaper?

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