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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. Jennifer asked Ellie if Will mentioned what item the night before?
(a) The lance.
(b) A stone.
(c) A crystal.
(d) The sword.

2. After whom is Ellie named?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) The Lady of Shalot.
(c) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
(d) The Lady of Avalon.

3. What does Ellie do in anticipation of attending the game and party at Will's house?
(a) Buys a new pair of jeans.
(b) Has her hair permed.
(c) Tries to dress glamorously.
(d) Has her hair streaked.

4. What makes Ellie happy when she observes Jennifer and Will?
(a) Jennifer and Will seem happy with each other.
(b) Jennifer and Will seem to just be friends.
(c) Jennifer and Will do not speak to each other.
(d) Jennifer is not at the party.

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 the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.
(c) If that might be brier rabbit.
(d) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Will moved a lot in his childhood?

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

3. Where is Geoff when the story opens?

4. How does Ellie interpret all of Will's friendly gestures?

5. Why is a member of the other team taken off on a stretcher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ellie running with her father in a wooded area?

2. What does Will do when he and Ellie pass a lemonade stand?

3. How does Ellie relate Jennifer, Marco, Will, and Lance to the Arthurian legend?

4. How does Ellie find Lance and Jennifer together right before Ellie is leaving the party?

5. Who does Ellie see on the trail with the man she saw in the ravine?

6. What does Ellie notice when she runs by a ravine? Why does she think it odd?

7. Summarize what Ellie says about the Arthurian legend.

8. What poem is initially assigned to Ellie in class? How does she get a different one?

9. What happens during the football game with Will, Lance, and one of the other team members?

10. What happens as the teens prepare to go sailing?

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