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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eliza tell her mother she must do for Eliza to reveal where Laura's body is?
(a) Come forward with all information about her husband.
(b) Tell Eliza everything she knows about Laura's death.
(c) Turn herself in.
(d) Run away to New York with Eliza.

2. What does Wesley claim to do each night in his study?
(a) He says he reads and grades papers.
(b) He claims to have written the great Australian novel.
(c) He claims that the study is where he finds solitude.
(d) He says he does not really spend much time in the study.

3. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Oxymoron.

4. Why does Charlie feel like he can trust Jasper?
(a) Jasper's reputation is squeaky clean.
(b) Jasper has always been a good friend to Charlie.
(c) Jasper has proven his innocence already.
(d) Jasper is the only one willing to cut through the facade of the town.

5. What clue does Jasper find at Mad Jack's that seems to confirm the man's role in Laura's death?
(a) Weapons stored in the garage.
(b) What looks like a shallow grave.
(c) A car etched with the word "sorry."
(d) A typed confession.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has color returned to An Lu's garden in Chapter Seven?

2. Why is it easy for Charlie to sneak out of his house in Chapter Five?

3. When do Australian students return to school after summer break?

4. Why might Chapter Seven skip back and forth between memories of the encounter with Mad Jack?

5. Whom do Eliza and Charlie NOT encounter on their walk to the glade in Chapter Seven?

(see the answer key)

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