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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do the townspeople treat Maria?
(a) They avoided her.
(b) Spitefully.
(c) Reverently.
(d) Curiously.
2. How do the girls find out Jimmy is in the backyard?
(a) When Kylie hears Jimmy talking to her.
(b) When Gillian shows them his grave.
(c) When Jimmy appears to all three of them.
(d) When Gillian tells them the ring was his.
3. What does Sally tell Gary she feels like physically?
(a) She feels like she just ran a marathon.
(b) Like she is pumped up on adrenaline.
(c) Like she wants to go to sleep.
(d) Like she is going to have a stroke or faint.
4. What causes Gillian to sleep more peacefully?
(a) She works so hard she is exhausted.
(b) She is taking medicine.
(c) The lilacs are no longer blooming.
(d) The picture of Maria Owens.
5. What does Kylie tell Gillian about the coming summer?
(a) The gnomes will come alive on the mid-summer full moon.
(b) Their aunts are going to Europe.
(c) They will not be going to their aunts.
(d) The roses will take over the yard.
6. What does Sally tell Gary about Jimmy?
(a) He went to Mexico.
(b) He dropped Gillian off and left.
(c) He is in town working.
(d) He won't be bothering anyone anymore.
7. What was something that drew attention to Maria Owens when she came to town?
(a) She was six and a half feet tall.
(b) She was single and pregnant.
(c) She was Chinese.
(d) She was in a wheelchair.
8. What book of Kylie's does Gillian study?
(a) Biology.
(b) Literature.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Physics.
9. What does Kyle start sending to Ben's house?
(a) Lilacs.
(b) Large orders of anchovy pizzas.
(c) Stray animals.
(d) Roses.
10. What does Kylie suddenly realize when she is with Gideon?
(a) Her aunts could stop the marriage.
(b) Gideon may have a cute new step-brother.
(c) She may never see Gideon again.
(d) She will not be going to her aunts' house that summer.
11. What does the letter to Gillian from Sally look like when the postman delivers it?
(a) It is in a hot pink envelope.
(b) Pristine, like it was mailed yesterday.
(c) No stamp and open envelope.
(d) It is coated in brown mud.
12. What does Gillian do with the girls when they leave the backyard?
(a) Makes them chocolate chip cookies.
(b) Takes them to the library.
(c) Makes them tea.
(d) Takes them to the ice cream parlor.
13. What does Gillian do with Buddy?
(a) Cries and talks to Buddy.
(b) Asks if Ben can have the day off.
(c) Takes him fishing.
(d) Cooks him breakfast.
14. What does Gary think when he sees Sally's car?
(a) She has come to lie to him some more.
(b) It might not be her.
(c) She wants to go into his motel room.
(d) He wants to marry her.
15. Why has someone sent Maria a large sum of money?
(a) No one sent Maria a large sum of money.
(b) As a return for money Maria lent him.
(c) In appreciation for her healing the woman's son.
(d) To make her leave him alone.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ben talk about as Gillian is falling asleep after they make love?
2. What does Sally do when she is driving all over town?
3. What do the townspeople gossip about Maria?
4. Why does Sally excuse herself to go get Gillian?
5. What is the woman at the front desk of Gary's motel doing?
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