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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 was the name of the spirit in one of the stories Sonja used to tell Beatrice?
(a) Fossegrim.
(b) Huldra.
(c) Vittra.
(d) Nacken.

2. In Chapter 13, what time was dinner always served?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 7 p.m.
(c) 6:15 p.m.
(d) 5:30 p.m.

3. What color did Sonja and her grandparents paint their house when they moved in?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Lavender.
(d) Green.

4. What grade was Alex in when a doctor came to speak to her class in Chapter 11 about feminine health?
(a) 6th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 5th.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Dr. Gantz testify in 1960 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities?

3. What type of factory was destroyed by fire only weeks after the end of World WarIi and was thought to be a dragoning?

4. Where was Marya Tilman from?

5. How long did the teenage boy who accompanied the Girl Guides on a scouting expedition in to the Everglades have to spend in the hospital after the Girl Guides and leaders disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was reported about Marya Tilman's dragoning?

2. What information was disseminated about the Mass Dragoning of 1955?

3. How did George feel when Bertha started gardening?

4. How was Alex's aunt Marla different from most women of the time?

5. Where did Alex keep things from her mother, and what did she keep there?

6. How did Bertha die?

7. Why did Bertha start sleeping in Alex and Beatrice's room?

8. What conversation did Alex and Aunt Marla have three days before the dragoning?

9. What was the house like where Sonja and her grandparents lived?

10. What was Alex and the other girls in her fifth grade class told when Dr. Angus Ferguson came to their class to talk about changes?

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