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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. April is still listening on the phone and Jim comes back on the phone. What does Max tell Jim?
(a) That he is having second thoughts about hiding the family.
(b) That the Corrigan family has been threatened.
(c) That Mr. Corrigan has disappeared.
(d) That April is acting like a spoiled child.

2. Tom Geist gives Mr. Corrigan the key to his new business. What kind of business is it?
(a) A fast-photo processing shop.
(b) An antique shop.
(c) A photocopying shop.
(d) A fast food restaurant.

3. Who arrives from the U.S. Marshals Service to help the family assume their new identities?
(a) Rona Brown.
(b) Rita Brown.
(c) Rona Green.
(d) Rita Green.

4. Why is April's father George away?
(a) He's traveling on business.
(b) He's involved in a trial.
(c) He's in the hospital.
(d) He's separated from her mother.

5. What has April just celebrated at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Her winning a sports championship.
(b) The first anniversary of dating her boyfriend.
(c) Her boyfriend's birthday.
(d) Her seventeenth birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Larry phone April soon after they met?

2. What does April's friend Sherry call April's room?

3. What does Larry say after April agrees to play too?

4. When the family goes shopping in Grove City for the first time, what does April get her dad to buy for her?

5. What is going to happen to April's family's dog, Porky?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is waiting in the Corrigan house when April and her grandmother arrive home from school? Why is April uneasy about this?

2. Before they leave Norwood, the family meets Jim Peterson, a retired policeman, who is going to stay with the family. At the beginning of Chapter 3, he takes the family to the Mayflower Hotel in Richmond. How does April describe it?

3. April thinks she will be home for Steve's graduation, but she is wrong. They stay at the Mayflower for two and a half weeks. How does each family member react to this prolonged stay?

4. After the family gets settled in Florida, life becomes dull. How do the Corrigans pass their time for the next three weeks?

5. April's reaction to the person at the hotel door is interrupted by Jim, who scuffles with them while the Corrigans listen from inside the suite. Later on, they go out to check and what do they find?

6. After she is called to the counselor's office during her typing class, who does April see waiting for her? How does she react to this?

7. The book begins with: "(T)he world as we knew it ended for us on a Tuesday afternoon in May." How does April describe her school day on that Tuesday afternoon in May?

8. In Chapter 1, April describes her world and makes it sound perfect. How does she do this?

9. Five days after their first meeting with the U.S. Marshal Rita Green, she comes back with their new identities. Where will the family be going and what will April's new identity be?

10. The family is visited by their U.S. Marshal Florida contact, Tom Geist. He tells them they have to learn to blend in in Grove City. What is one example that he talks about?

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