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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 6..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Will's father disappointed in Will?
(a) Will wants to travel for a year before college.
(b) Will wants to join the Coast Guard.
(c) Will does not want to be in the military.
(d) Will does not want to accept a Harvard scholarship.

2. Why has Will moved a lot in his childhood?
(a) His father is in the military.
(b) His mother is in the military.
(c) His father is a travel guide writer.
(d) His mother loves to go to new places.

3. What is one thing Ellie enjoys doing?
(a) Creating cryptograms.
(b) Researching antiques for her father.
(c) Drifting in the pool.
(d) Talking on the phone.

4. Where are Ellie and her parents living at the opening of the story?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Annapolis.
(d) Baltimore.

5. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) How the man got down there without a machete.
(b) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.
(c) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.
(d) If that might be brier rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?

2. What does Ellie's mother invite Will to do?

3. How long has Ellie known Liz?

4. What does Ellie do that is out of character for her?

5. What does Ellie's mother quote at dinner?

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