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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 does Hollis do when she sees Steven's head against the wheel of the truck after the crash?
(a) She screams and faints.
(b) She pulls him out of the truck.
(c) She does CPR on him.
(d) She runs down the mountain to get help.

2. In Hollis' drawing, Hollis Woods, Hollis feels like she is ________________.
(a) spinning.
(b) sinking.
(c) floating.
(d) suspended.

3. Where do the Regans tell Izzy about their plans to make her part of their family?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) The front porch.
(c) In the den.
(d) In the car.

4. When questioned by Hollis, Josie says that Santa Claus looked ________________.
(a) dirty.
(b) fat.
(c) old.
(d) cold.

5. What does Hollis say when Josie gives her the wooden figure she carved of Hollis?
(a) It doesn't look like a mountain of trouble.
(b) It's the best gift she ever got.
(c) It is smaller than she thought it would be.
(d) It still needs a little work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hollis want to announce from the top of the mountain?

2. What does Josie give to Hollis for Christmas?

3. What happens to Josie when she ventures outside?

4. What does Mr. Regan beg Hollis to do?

5. What had Steven been bringing to the Summer house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hollis feel bad that Steven and the Old Man seem to fight so much?

2. Why is the girl in the Thirteenth Picture, the Conference Room, not Hollis?

3. Describe Hollis' Twelfth Picture, A Mountain of Trouble, depicting the events of the truck accident on the mountain.

4. What does Hollis see for the very first time as she looks at her pictures from the Summer?

5. What gifts do Hollis and Josie give each other for Christmas?

6. Why does Hollis not ask Josie about the green sweater now hanging in the shed but which Hollis had left at the riverbank the day she saw someone on the opposite bank?

7. To what does Hollis compare her worries of trying to fit into the Regan family?

8. Why does Hollis not actually draw the Eleventh Picture, On the Mountain?

9. Why does Hollis run away from the Regans' home after the truck accident and refuse to see any of them again?

10. What things does Hollis say to the Regans in her head as she prepares for the escape trip with Josie?

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