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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 happens when April and Marshall leave Egypt after visiting at night?
(a) They see a shadow lurking in the distance.
(b) Marshall starts crying.
(c) Someone grabs April as she leaves Egypt.
(d) A car drives down the alley.

2. What does Marshall tell the police that the Professor did that night when he and April left Egypt?
(a) He watched from his window.
(b) He did nothing to help them.
(c) He yelled for help.
(d) He ran out into the yard.

3. Why do Marshall and April go to Egypt at night?
(a) To retrieve April's math book.
(b) Marshall lost Security again.
(c) Because Marshall did not get to go to Egypt on Halloween night.
(d) To perform the Oracle of Thoth.

4. What news does April receive in a letter from her mother?
(a) She is married, so April cannot come home.
(b) She lands a part in a Hollywood movie.
(c) She thinks April should be able to return to Hollywood soon.
(d) She is singing more now, in hopes of getting a recording career.

5. Whom does April think is responsible for the answer, when she takes the paper from Thoth's beak?
(a) One of the other Egyptians.
(b) The Professor.
(c) A stranger.
(d) One of their classmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ken and Toby bring to Egypt after the children are permitted outside again?

2. What question remains after Marshall finds Security?

3. What do the Egyptians do after the Oracle of Thoth is performed?

4. What happens to Marshall following the attack on April?

5. Why does everyone think something strange is going on in Egypt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Security found?

2. What is the inspiration for the Oracle ceremony?

3. How does Marshal describe the man who hurt April?

4. What happens to Elizabeth's parakeet, Petey?

5. What is the story the Egyptians develop for the demise of Elizabeth's parakeet, Petey?

6. What is the Oracle of Thoth?

7. How does April respond to her mother's invitation to join her in Palm Springs during Christmas break?

8. Why do April and Marshall go to Egypt at night?

9. How did Security become lost?

10. Why does Toby want to finish the hieroglyphic alphabet?

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