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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. How does Jessie finally escape the grounds of Clifton?
(a) Inside a mail truck.
(b) In the back of a bread truck.
(c) Riding in the back of a pick-up truck.
(d) Walking behind a small truck.

2. Who tells Jessie that visitors can rent the haunted trees?
(a) A middle school student.
(b) The tour guide.
(c) The doctor.
(d) No one tells her this.

3. What do the haunted trees in Clifton surround?
(a) Jessie's parents' house.
(b) The pond.
(c) The school.
(d) The town square.

4. What does Jessie say is haunted in Clifton?
(a) Her log cabin.
(b) The general store.
(c) The trees.
(d) The river.

5. What does Jessie discover about the common areas of Clifton in Chapter 8?
(a) That they are being filmed by cameras.
(b) That they are all guarded.
(c) That they all have an emergency exit.
(d) That tourists can watch the residents through them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jessie realize Katie is ill?

2. What does Jessie's mom say her other children could sleep through?

3. What does Jessie do before meeting her mother at the forbidden rock for the second time?

4. In Chapter 7, how does Jessie decide to try to fully escape Clifton?

5. What did Ma do for a living before moving to Clifton?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what rule does Ma have for Jessie coming with her on a house call?

2. What does Ma reveal to Jessie about Clifton?

3. What upsets Jessie about the middle school student visitors she meets?

4. In Chapter 7, what makes Jessie feel better about leaving Clifton?

5. What does Jessie think when she first sees a row of school buses?

6. In Chapter 8, how does Jessie almost give away her true identity?

7. How does Jessie get inside the bread truck?

8. After watching Clifton from the outside point of view, what does Jessie think of people in 1996?

9. How does Jessie escape from Clifton?

10. When Jessie sees the Clifton school house from the outside in Chapter 9, what happens?

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