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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Valencia offer to do with Gen and Kaori in Chapter 26?
(a) Help them look for Gulliver.
(b) Help them hunt for snakes.
(c) Help them bake the best birthday cake ever.
(d) Help them look for Virgil.

2. What was the name of Valencia's guinea pig?
(a) William.
(b) Harry.
(c) Lilliput.
(d) Ebenezer.

3. How does Valencia think of moving through the woods in Chapter 19?
(a) She does not just walk through the woods, she feels them.
(b) She likes to think of the birds' songs leading her through the woods.
(c) She likes to track animal prints through the woods.
(d) She likes to think of herself as blindfolded in the woods.

4. Who is the only one besides Kaori who knows where the crystals are?
(a) Gen.
(b) Kaori's mother.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Lola.

5. Where did Kaori first get the crystals?
(a) From a website online.
(b) From a woman at a garage sale.
(c) From a museum gift shop.
(d) From her own grandmother.

6. In Chapter 23, what was Kaori's first word?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Stone.
(c) Nomad.
(d) Future.

7. What does Gen tell Valencia in Chapter 29 about Virgil that Valencia thinks is interesting?
(a) Virgil knows sign language.
(b) Virgil has a pet rat.
(c) Virgil speaks Spanish.
(d) Virgil has a pet snake.

8. When Chet finally finds a snake in Chapter 29, how does he grab it?
(a) By its head.
(b) He uses a stick with a loop at the end to pick up the snake.
(c) By its tail.
(d) By its fangs.

9. What does Virgil become afraid of in Chapter 22 that comes from one of Lola's stories?
(a) A monstrous serpent named Garth.
(b) A huge bird named Pah.
(c) A huge alligator named Kalori.
(d) A monstrous dragon named Kalvin.

10. What does Gen ask Valencia about when she opens the door and meets her for the first time in Chapter 24?
(a) Valencia's journal.
(b) Valencia's pet rat.
(c) Valencia's hearing aids.
(d) Valencia's backpack.

11. Who does Valencia like to pretend to be when she writes in her zoological diary?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Jane Goodall.
(c) Amelia Earhardt.
(d) Katherine Hall.

12. In Chapter 20, what can Virgil never remember having done before in his life?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Talking back to his mother.
(c) Playing basketball.
(d) Yelling.

13. What is it about Virgil's house that makes Valencia a little nervous in Chapter 29?
(a) It is very run-down, and she finds this foreboding.
(b) It is red, and she does not like the color red.
(c) It is big, and something about big houses intimidates her.
(d) It is brick, and she once fell and cut her forehead at a brick house.

14. What does Chet think he would name a snake if he catches one in Chapter 30?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Smaug.
(c) Richard.
(d) Gandalf.

15. What does Virgil ask the voice in the well to do for him in return for its request in Chapter 32?
(a) Go and get help from Lola.
(b) Bring him some food.
(c) Watch over him as he rests and protect him and Gulliver from Pah.
(d) Find him a paper and pen to write a good-bye letter to his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the king in Lola's story who was only one inch tall that Virgil tells the voice in the well about in Chapter 27?

2. What does Valencia notice about the old well in the woods that is strange to her in Chapter 21?

3. What does Valencia learn about her name that she did not know before from the person who answers the door at Virgil's house in Chapter 29?

4. What does the voice in the well tell Virgil in Chapter 25 when he says his situation is hopeless?

5. What question does Kaori ask Valencia in the end of Chapter 26 that Valencia does not hear?

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