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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 want to announce from the top of the mountain?
(a) That she wants to know her biological mother.
(b) That she is in love.
(c) That she is happy to be alive.
(d) That there is a new Hollis.

2. What does Hollis think about the Regans one morning?
(a) If they are in Hawaii for Christmas.
(b) If they will punish her for staying in the Summer house.
(c) If they forgive her for starting that fire.
(d) If they think of her like she thinks of them.

3. Where does Hollis ask Steven to take her as she jumps on the back of the snowmobile?
(a) The phone booth at the grocery store.
(b) The art store.
(c) Back to the Summer house.
(d) The airport.

4. Who is the social worker who tries to reconnect Hollis with the Regans?
(a) Emmy.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Eva.
(d) Evelyn.

5. Where does Hollis park Josie's car?
(a) In the shed.
(b) In the backyard.
(c) In the garage.
(d) In the carport.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josie give to Hollis for Christmas?

2. What does the Old Man do as the rescue workers bring Steven down the mountain?

3. What does Hollis say when Josie gives her the wooden figure she carved of Hollis?

4. Where does Hollis hide her fishing pole?

5. What has occurred in Josie's drawing, A Mountain of Trouble?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clues does Hollis have that Steven is playing Santa Claus for her and Josie in the summer house?

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

3. What does Hollis draw for the Eighth Picture, End of Summer, when the Regans tell her they want her to be part of their family?

4. What startles Hollis when she tries to fish on the riverbank?

5. Why does Hollis not want to think about leaving the summer house even though Josie's mental capacities are shrinking and she is homesick?

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

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

8. 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?

9. What does Steven do and say to show that he loves Hollis as a sister when they spend some time on the mountain?

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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