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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. When activists invaded a secretive House Subcommittee on Compensation and Resolution in January 1956, where did reports of the standoff appear in the newspaper?
(a) Front Page.
(b) Style and Fashion Pages.
(c) National News pages.
(d) Weather and Comics pages.

2. When was the earliest known documentation of spontaneous dragoning written?
(a) Around 310 BC.
(b) Just after 320 BC.
(c) 148 BC.
(d) 411 BC.

3. When did the Mass Dragoning or Day of Missing Mothers occur?
(a) May 11, 1955.
(b) March 9, 1955.
(c) June 27, 1955.
(d) April 25, 1955.

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

5. How old was Alex when her aunt Marla got married?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many female switchboard operators disappeared on the job in Manhattan in 1952?

3. What was the name of Alex's eight grade English teacher?

4. On New Year's Eve, 1959, at how many separate holiday parties across the U.S. were reported dragonings?

5. How long after Alex's mother died did she and Beatrice meet Miss Olson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Professor Gantz witness a dragoning and what was it like?

3. Who was Sonja Blomgren?

4. What happened to a group of Girl Guides who went on a scouting expedition into the Everglades?

5. How did a priest stop young women from turning into dragons?

6. What happened at a Los Angeles bar in 1959?

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

8. What was Alex told about Beatrice after Aunt Marla disappeared?

9. What was Alex's punishment after Sonja was sent away?

10. When Alex sought out her aunt Marla's former co-workers, what did they tell her about the day her aunt disappeared?

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