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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Ellie notice arguing?
(a) Her father and Geoff.
(b) Her father and another man Ellie does not know.
(c) The three young people in the trail.
(d) Geoff and his girlfriend.

2. Why does Mr. Morton yell at Ellie?
(a) She traded off the Beowulf poem.
(b) She accidentally bumps into him.
(c) She squirts ketchup on him.
(d) She refuses to give the poetry report.

3. What does Will say about Ellie making the track team?
(a) Ellie will be a real asset to them.
(b) Ellie made the team because of her looks.
(c) Ellie needs to watch her back with Liz.
(d) Ellie needs to watch her back with Stacy.

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

5. What is Will's father rumored to have done?
(a) Worked as a Soviet spy.
(b) Killed his best friend.
(c) Escaped from a prison camp in Vietnam.
(d) Killed his first wife.

6. Liz and Stacy think Ellie should try to date ____________.
(a) Will.
(b) Marco.
(c) Anyone but Lance.
(d) Lance.

7. How does Will answer Ellie's question?
(a) He came over because Ellie intrigues him.
(b) He lives in the country about five miles out of town.
(c) He is home schooled.
(d) He does not want to talk about Jennifer.

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

9. What does Ellie think of the school itself?
(a) It's wonderful.
(b) It's old and ugly.
(c) It's gloomy.
(d) It's run down.

10. What does Ellie not understand concerning Mr. Morton?
(a) He is mad at her, but not Lance.
(b) He knows so much about her.
(c) He would care which poem she analyzed.
(d) He would yell at her at a football game.

11. What does Ellie think of the majority of the kids at school?
(a) They are snobs.
(b) They are boring.
(c) They are nice.
(d) They are weird.

12. How long has Ellie known Liz?
(a) About a year.
(b) One day.
(c) Her whole life.
(d) Several weeks.

13. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?
(a) The sword Ellie's father is writing about.
(b) A book that had been in Ellie's family for generations.
(c) One of the first anagrams ever discovered from ancient Greece.
(d) A rare antique humidor.

14. To whom is Lance talking on the sidelines?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Ellie.
(c) A recruiter.
(d) Stacy.

15. Why is Ellie running with her father in the woods?
(a) They are trying to catch up to the neighborhood people in the run program.
(b) She is supporting his exercise routine.
(c) They are chasing a fox.
(d) They are chasing their Boston terrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie talk Liz and Stacy into doing after the game?

2. Why does Ellie decide to go for a run when she gets home from school?

3. What is Ellie's screen name?

4. What does Ellie observe about Marco?

5. What does Mr. Morton order Ellie to do?

(see the answer keys)

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