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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crazy tales does Millie tell?
(a) Of parties and gallant gentlemen.
(b) Her wild family and servants.
(c) Of servants and ghostly visitors.
(d) Hunting crocodiles and surviving hurricanes.

2. What does Jamie have no intentions of doing?
(a) Telling Mr. Morse that he is sorry.
(b) Ending the checkers game.
(c) Fighting again.
(d) Hurting Mr. Morse.

3. What does Mr. Morse tell Mr. Katz he is missing?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) A part of his window.
(c) A piece of the checkers game.
(d) His wife.

4. What does the Girl do to Mr. Morse?
(a) She taunts him.
(b) She tries to talk him out of the closet.
(c) She follows him.
(d) She yells at him.

5. What does the Girl suggest to Paul?
(a) There is a possibility that Millie knew his grandfather.
(b) There is a possibility that Mr. Morse could be Paul's grandfather.
(c) There is a possibility that his grandfather stayed in the hotel.
(d) There is a possibility that Mr. Katz is his grandfather.

6. What will Paul not accept?
(a) Mrs. Oxenham is too busy.
(b) There are no rooms available.
(c) Mr. Katz will not speak with him.
(d) The lack of response.

7. How does the Girl respond to Jackie's question?
(a) Jamie asked to have the mascara put on him.
(b) Jackie should not laugh at her brother.
(c) Jamie was hit by Mr. Morse.
(d) The whole incident had been a joke.

8. What document is available?
(a) A telephone number.
(b) A rent receipt.
(c) A credit card number.
(d) A forwarding address.

9. Why is Mr. Morse moving silently down the stairs, waving his arms?
(a) He is trying desperately to say something, which will not come out.
(b) He is trying to entertain the other guests.
(c) He is playing a game.
(d) He is choking.

10. What does Millie suddenly stand and declare?
(a) She is tired of all of the guests.
(b) She is moving.
(c) The hotel is her home, and she does not want to be evicted.
(d) Paul's grandfather is alive.

11. What does the Girl do when she learns that the old man had been a train engineer?
(a) She calls him.
(b) She wants to interview him when Paul allows it.
(c) She asks to meet him with Paul.
(d) She is ecstatic and demands the chance to talk to the old man, when he is found.

12. What does Millie remind Jackie?
(a) Mr. Katz may still help her, if she can avoid annoying him.
(b) The other residents will pitch in to help her.
(c) Jamie is in his room.
(d) It is Memorial Day.

13. Why do Paul's parents not let his grandfather live with them?
(a) He is not mentally stable.
(b) They do not have the room.
(c) He is too difficult to deal with.
(d) They do not love him.

14. What does Jackie do when she finally sees Jamie's blackened eye?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She yells at him for acting so childishly.
(c) She wipes off the mascara.
(d) She demands to know the circumstances of the injury.

15. What is Mrs. Oxenham, the hotel's day desk clerk and switchboard operator, attempting to deflect?
(a) Paul's request to determine whether or not his grandfather had stayed at the hotel a few years ago.
(b) Mr. Katz's questions.
(c) Mr. Morse's whining.
(d) The complaints from the many residents.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Millie try to intercede on Paul's behalf?

2. Why is Paul determined to find his grandfather?

3. What did Jackie buy?

4. What does Paul share with the Girl?

5. Where does Mr. Morse confusedly retreat?

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