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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 concern has Tommy admitted to the narrator he has for the creatures in his drawings?
(a) How they will be kept safe.
(b) How they might catch food.
(c) How they will keep warm.
(d) How they can reach and fetch things.

2. Who suggests in chapter 18 that the narrator become Ruth's carer?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Laura.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Kathy.

3. In chapter 13, who has been placed in charge of the spending money for the Norfolk trip?
(a) Rodney.
(b) Kathy.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Tommy.

4. What one sign of her health struggles does Ruth show during the walk to the boat in chapter 18?
(a) She walks with a limp.
(b) She cannot walk at all.
(c) She must stop often.
(d) She is short of breath.

5. What does Madame reveal in chapter 21 that the artwork from Hailsham was supposed to show?
(a) The students' souls.
(b) The students' inner child.
(c) The students' intelligence.
(d) The students' creativitiy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Martin (Rodney and Chrissie's friend mentioned in chapter 13) have?

2. In chapter 18, the narrator mentions the name of a student from Hailsham who had difficulty dealing with being a carer. Who does she mention?

3. In chapter 15, what does Tommy suggest Madame does with the art from the Hailsham students?

4. In chapter 16, why does the narrator feel she must apologize to Ruth?

5. In chapter 16, what route does Kathy say was out of bounds at Hailsham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kathy decide not to tell Ruth at the end of chapter 15?

2. In chapter 12, Rodney and Chrissie report seeing what person in Norfolk during a trip there?

3. What has Tommy begun to draw after the trip to Norfolk? What does Kathy initially think of these drawings?

4. In chapter 15, Tommy reveals to Kathy that he had been searching for what in Woolworth's?

5. What does Ruth admit to Kathy in chapter 19 that she believes should have happened in their past and that she actively attempted to prevent?

6. What does Tommy tell Kathy in chapter 15 that he believes are the purpose of the art they were encouraged to do at Hailsham?

7. How does Ruth react to the sight of her possible? How does she, and the others, come to believe this woman could not be her possible?

8. In chapter 17, what changes does Kathy note about the Cottages after her rift with Ruth and Tommy?

9. Why does Rodney and Chrissie detour the group into Woolworth's upon arriving in Norfolk in chapter 14? How do the others feel about this?

10. At the end of chapter 17, how does Kathy actively change her situation?

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