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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. Where is the only doctor in the house when Amy's injury becomes known to the parents?
(a) Swimming in the lake.
(b) Taking a nap upstairs in the house.
(c) Back in Brooklyn, having left the vacation early.
(d) Out shopping for supplies.

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

3. What is one of the things the teenagers respect in Chapter 1?
(a) The house itself.
(b) The furniture.
(c) The animals around the house.
(d) Their parents.

4. Who is Evie's favorite person?
(a) Ricky.
(b) Juicy.
(c) Shel.
(d) Jack.

5. Why do some of the teenagers go back to the great house in Chapter 2?
(a) They have a food shortage.
(b) They miss their pets.
(c) They are sick.
(d) They miss their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been added to the treehouses by previous visitors to the house?

2. What do the teenagers most often feel when spying on the parents having sex?

3. What does Evie's mother teach?

4. Which animal startles Eve when it lands on her in Chapter 4?

5. Who is a germaphobe among the teenagers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?

2. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?

3. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

4. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?

5. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?

6. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?

7. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?

8. What is the "magic hour" and how do the teenagers use it?

9. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?

10. Why is David feeling so guilty about sabotaging the yacht in Chapter 3?

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