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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Evie find Jen and Terry during the storm preparations?
(a) Hiding in the treehouses.
(b) Making out in the greenhouse.
(c) Back on the delta.
(d) Fixing the boats to the shed.

3. What do the teenagers do with one mother's lipstick?
(a) Steal it for themselves.
(b) Give it to another mother as a present.
(c) Throw it in the lake.
(d) Put it on the dog.

4. What does Burl do for a living?
(a) He is a veterinarian.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) He is a dentist.
(d) He is a groundskeeper.

5. What does Evie do with Amy after Amy's injury?
(a) Stanches the blood flow with a rag.
(b) Picks her up and carries her into the house.
(c) Pulls out the bee stingers.
(d) Stitches her knee up.

6. What book does one of the other mothers give to Jack?
(a) A Child's Bible: Stores from the Old and New Testaments.
(b) One Fish, Two Fish.
(c) Green Eggs and Ham.
(d) Frog and Toad.

7. What had been added to the treehouses by previous visitors to the house?
(a) Drawings, names, initials, and etchings.
(b) Metal roofing.
(c) Watercolors.
(d) Radios.

8. What are Jack and Shel doing when Evie finds them in Chapter 3?
(a) Writing a book.
(b) Watching a movie.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Trapping animals in order to "save" them.

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

10. What is Jack's favorite book?
(a) George and Martha One Find Day.
(b) Fresh One.
(c) Persnickety Willow.
(d) Green Eggs and Ham.

11. What does Evie describe as the parents' hobby?
(a) Bicycling.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Boating.

12. What does David do to the yacht that he later feels guilty about?
(a) Drains its gas tank.
(b) Ruins its exhaust system.
(c) Scratches its perfect finish.
(d) Sabotages its navigation system.

13. Who comes to the delta in Chapter 2 who has been missing from the great house?
(a) Alycia.
(b) David.
(c) Dee.
(d) Jen.

14. What kinds of animals do the teenagers routinely chase from the lawn?
(a) Deer.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Iguanas.
(d) Bears.

15. What is the system of accounting that the teenagers come up with?
(a) A totem poll with cuts and knicks on it.
(b) The grid.
(c) Merits and demerits.
(d) A sticker book.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does James ask the teenagers that they are confused about in Chapter 2?

3. What are the parents doing when the teenagers get back from the delta?

4. What news do Alycia's parents get that upsets them in Chapter 3?

5. What does Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?

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