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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Evie and her friends do with the pets in Chapter 1 to amuse themselves and the parents?
(a) Teach them new tricks like shaking and rolling over.
(b) Put them in a canoe.
(c) Teach them to swim.
(d) Put them in a play.

2. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?
(a) Alycia.
(b) Rickey.
(c) Pam.
(d) Charlie.

3. What does Eve do because she is afraid of Jack being around all the water after the storm?
(a) Makes him stay in the attic for the first week after the storm.
(b) Makes him promise her never to go near the water.
(c) Makes him and Shel wear lifejackets.
(d) Makes him wear water wings.

4. Why do the parents say they can not leave the great house in Chapter 4?
(a) They need to repair the storm damage or they will not get their deposit back.
(b) They have nowhere else to go.
(c) They have to wait for the house's owner to return their calls.
(d) They can not drive under the influence.

5. What does Evie view the parents as in Chapter 1?
(a) Good examples.
(b) Icons of style.
(c) A cautionary tale.
(d) People who she might be able to like some day.

6. What does Evie's mother do when she waves at her mother in Chapter 3?
(a) Gives her some money.
(b) Ignores her completely.
(c) Runs to hug her.
(d) Asks her to get some more chips for her.

7. Where do the teenagers decamp from the house to in Chapter 2?
(a) A camper.
(b) A delta.
(c) A new house nearby.
(d) A neighboring state.

8. Where are James and his friends going after they leave the delta?
(a) Newport.
(b) Cape May.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Cape Fear.

9. What does Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?
(a) It is a toxic soup.
(b) It is likely to have fires starting on it.
(c) It is likely to have large human-eating snakes in it.
(d) It just keeps rising and rising.

10. Who are the twins in the great house?
(a) Kay and Amy.
(b) Alice and Kay.
(c) Amy and Alice.
(d) Cain and Kay.

11. How does Evie describe Val?
(a) As a tomboy who does not say much.
(b) As a great athlete.
(c) As a poor artist.
(d) As a witty wordsmith.

12. Who does Rafe call a homophobic idiot?
(a) Frank.
(b) Juicy.
(c) Terry.
(d) Ray.

13. How do Alycia's parents convince her to finally head for home with them?
(a) By paying her.
(b) By telling her she could move out next year.
(c) By giving her alcohol she asked for.
(d) By giving her drugs she asked for.

14. What does James ask the teenagers that they are confused about in Chapter 2?
(a) Whether their families have a compound.
(b) Whether their families have 401ks.
(c) Whether they are applying to Ivy League schools.
(d) Whether they have to go to school full-time.

15. What does Terry ask the parents not to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Go boating.
(b) Hug the teenagers.
(c) Drink so much.
(d) Come into the teenagers' attic room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jen's younger brother?

2. What book does one of the other mothers give to Jack?

3. Who does Rafe surmise is Sukey's mother in Chapter 1?

4. What kind of skull does Evie and her friends find in Chapter 1?

5. What kinds of animals do the teenagers routinely chase from the lawn?

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