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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 does the caller want?
(a) For Lia to come to the motel.
(b) For Lia to come by the police station.
(c) For Lia to have dinner alone with her father that night.
(d) To come over to Cassie's home that evening.

2. What does Lia do after everyone is asleep?
(a) Go to Cassie's bedroom window and look in.
(b) Write a letter.
(c) Work out on the stair-stepper.
(d) Cry.

3. Why is Lia excited when she gets on the scale later in her room?
(a) She is really at 102 pounds.
(b) She has dropped below 100 pounds.
(c) She has gained 3 pounds.
(d) She has not gained any weight, even though she has not lost any.

4. What does Cassie do when she lies on the floor?
(a) Crunches.
(b) Gathers dust bunnies under her bed.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Hugs her teddy bear.

5. What is Lia thinking of when she imagines she smells dust, spiders, cloves and burnt sugar?
(a) Cassie's body in the morgue.
(b) Being accidentally locked in the janitor closet with Cassie in 8th grade.
(c) Cassie making some drug concoction.
(d) The fight Cassie and she had several weeks earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what do Cassie and Lia bond?

2. When do Lia and Cassie meet?

3. What does Elijah say about Cassie?

4. What does Lia immediately do upon entering the room where the memorial is being held?

5. Who comes to Lia's house to ask Lia some questions?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lia and Cassie first meet?

2. What does Cassie say to Lia in the messages Cassie leaves on Lia's phone?

3. How does Jennifer feel about Cassie's death?

4. What does Emma confess to Lia when Lia takes her to soccer practice, and how does Lia respond?

5. Where is Lia at the opening of the novel and what is the news Jennifer announces?

6. What does Lia's scale reveal to her and what is her response?

7. Why do Lia's parents insist she see the psychiatrist that day and how does Lia behave during the session?

8. What does Lia have for breakfast and what is her hope will happen as a result?

9. Who calls Lia before she leaves for school after she has weighed herself?

10. Over what does Lia obsess after Jennifer and Emma leave the house?

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