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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Maco Station change after Joe's accident?
(a) Their lights to colored ones.
(b) Their trains.
(c) Their conductor's light exertion.
(d) Their tracks.

2. What do people say can still be heard at the end of "The Queen of Sounds"?
(a) A piano playing.
(b) A saxophone.
(c) The casino.
(d) Screams.

3. What is Donald shot by?
(a) A gun.
(b) A sling shot.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A cannon.

4. What do Caroline and her mother hold in the mansion year's after the pirate's death?
(a) A New Year's party.
(b) A wake for the pirate.
(c) Caroline's wedding.
(d) A birthday party.

5. What does the author presume about the reader's and the lights in "The Mysterious Maco Lights"?
(a) They have not heard the legend.
(b) They have heard the legend.
(c) That the reader might try and find Joe's light themselves.
(d) They have seen the lights.

6. What are the Outer Banks like when Joe and Josephine Bell live?
(a) Virtually unpopulated.
(b) Mainly inhabited by fisherman.
(c) Very busy.
(d) Moderately busy.

7. What river does the old mansion in "The Beckoning Hands" reside next to?
(a) The Tallahatchee.
(b) The Chowman.
(c) The Mississippi.
(d) The Gum.

8. How does the pirate die?
(a) From a fever at sea.
(b) From pneumonia.
(c) From old age.
(d) From tuberculosis.

9. What does Joe use to try and make his whereabouts known?
(a) Smoke.
(b) His screams.
(c) A flashing light.
(d) His lantern.

10. What is the name of the family Donald marries into?
(a) Paine.
(b) Panie.
(c) Pane.
(d) Payne.

11. What was Frenchy's role in the Civil War from "The Queen of Sounds"?
(a) He was a Confederate corporal.
(b) He was a Union corporal.
(c) He was a slave.
(d) He was a Union soldier.

12. What does Frenchy invest in?
(a) A showboat.
(b) A casino.
(c) A piano.
(d) Movie theatres.

13. In "The Beckoning Hands" who does the pirate want to live with?
(a) His wife.
(b) His wife and daughter, Caroline.
(c) The old lady.
(d) His daughter.

14. What war is at battle in "The Core Point Ghosts"?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) French-Indian War.

15. Who is killed in battle in "The Core Point Ghosts"?
(a) A drummer boy.
(b) A young girl, who was engaged to a boy.
(c) An officer, who had three children.
(d) A young boy, who was engaged to a girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can people say they can hear the mother and baby crying for one another?

2. What becomes unbearable while Alan and his grandparents wait to be rescued?

3. How old is Donald during the war?

4. What do people begin to see close to the train station after Joe's death?

5. What do people think the mysterious lights of Maco are?

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