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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. What does Mike tell Mattie he will do that night?
(a) Watch over her trailer.
(b) Come to her.
(c) Babysit for Kyra.
(d) Write a poem for her.

2. Who holds Mattie as she dies?
(a) Kyra.
(b) George.
(c) Mike.
(d) John.

3. Mike throws away the kitchen clock shaped like a/an __________________.
(a) Cat.
(b) Stove.
(c) Sun.
(d) Apple.

4. What is the name of the book Mike is writing at the cabin?
(a) When Sara Laughs.
(b) Regret Nothing.
(c) Miles to Go Before I Sleep.
(d) My Childhood Friend.

5. As Mike takes an after dinner walk, he is overcome by a perception of _____________________.
(a) Someone watching him through binoculars.
(b) A drowning Negro boy.
(c) An imminent thunderstorm.
(d) A car jumping the sidewalk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mike find under a throw rug in Jo's studio?

2. What bad news does Mattie have when Mike calls her?

3. Who is the attorney appointed to be guardian ad litem for Kyra?

4. What news does Bill tell Mike when he calls him early one morning?

5. Where do Mike and Kyra run to escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mike know that he has to do in order to quell Sara and Kito's spirits and whose spirits does he encounter at the scene of the murders?

2. What does Bill tell Mike about why people don't like Mike's being back in the area?

3. How does Jo help Mike during his assault by Max and Rogette?

4. What does Frank tell Mike about being with Jo at Sara Laughs shortly before she died?

5. What decision does Mike make regarding Mattie and their relationship and how do his feelings for her ultimately save his life?

6. What preoccupies Mike's mind regardless of all the supernatural things going on around him?

7. In what way do Max and Rogette terrorize Mike after his sensory experience regarding the young Negro boy?

8. What does Kyra intuit at the Fryeburg County Fair scenario that Mike does not pick up on?

9. Who does John Storrow invite to an impromptu party after hearing the good news about Mattie's inheritance?

10. What are some of the haunting events at Sara Laughs and why won't Mike leave?

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