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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. The chapter title “Marian the Librarian” is a literary allusion to what musical?
(a) Guys and Dolls.
(b) Cats.
(c) The Music Man.
(d) Avenue Q.

2. Ethan has a nightmare in which he is what in “The Real Boo Radley”?
(a) Trying to save a woman.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Being chased by a snake.
(d) Driving a car off a cliff.

3. Ethan learns from his aunts in “The Sisters” that the initials on the locket stand for what name?
(a) Sarah Michelle Anderson.
(b) Ethan Carter Wate.
(c) Genevieve Anne Masterson.
(d) Emily Rosen Waters.

4. Where do Ethan and Link pass a truant officer in the beginning of “New Girl”?
(a) The Baptist Church.
(b) The train depot.
(c) The Stop and Shop.
(d) The hidden smoking alley.

5. Who leads Ethan to Lena when he enters Ravenwood Manor in “Hallow E’en”?
(a) Boo Radley.
(b) Grace.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Reese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Genevieve retrieve when Marian, Ethan, and Lena travel back in time in “Marian the Librarian”?

2. On what date does “Marian the Librarian” open?

3. Who is the popular cheerleader that, along with her followers, makes fun of Lena in English class in “Broken Glass”?

4. “Boo Radley” is a famous character that originally appeared in what novel?

5. Amma tells Macon Ravenwood that her family has been “cleaning up the messes” for Macon’s family for how long in “The Greats”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the chapters structured in the novel? What is the significance of the dates noted?

2. When Ethan touches the locket while at church in “The Sisters,” what scene unfolds?

3. What is significant about the kitchen in Ravenwood Manor, as seen in “The Real Boo Radley”?

4. Where is Ethan’s mother in the story? What is the impact of her absence as seen in “The Middle of Nowhere”?

5. What conversation does Ethan overhear between Macon Ravenwood and Amma in “The Greats”?

6. How does Ethan describe the physicality between himself and Lena in the early chapters of the novel?

7. How does Lena explain her personal predicament to Ethan in “A Crack in the Plaster”?

8. In “A Crack in the Plaster,” Lena relates a story of a teenager who was Claimed Dark. How does this scenario turn out, and what does it indicate?

9. Who are “The Sisters” that this chapter title references? What is their relationship to Ethan?

10. When Ethan and Lena show Marian the locket and travel back in time in “Marian the Librarian,” what scene do they arrive in?

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