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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. Why does Ben think this person is not dead, but simply sleeping?
(a) Because he is breathing.
(b) Because he is watching them.
(c) Because there are no signs of violence.
(d) Because he looks overwhelmingly healthy.

2. What does Father Callahan spill that he carefully cleans up to keep his housekeeper from learning about it?
(a) Scotch.
(b) Holy water.
(c) Spaghetti sauce.
(d) Motor oil.

3. Where do Matt and Ben find this missing person?
(a) At the boarding house.
(b) In the parking lot.
(c) In the bathroom.
(d) In the dump.

4. Who tells Floyd Tibbits about the thing Mike Ryerson found when he got to work that morning?
(a) Dell.
(b) Dud.
(c) Hank.
(d) Royal.

5. What do Ben and Susan believe continues to live in the Marsten House?
(a) Hubert's ghost.
(b) The ghosts of the four missing children.
(c) Birdie's ghost.
(d) Hubert's evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the custodian at the local dump?

2. What is Ben instructed to take with him when he leaves the boarding house in Chapter 8?

3. Who asks a friend in the FBI to investigate the backgrounds of Ben Mears, Straker, and Barlow in the aftermath of the search for the missing boy?

4. What does this visitor do to Dud after he falls into some sort of trance?

5. What does Larry Crockett say might be a consequence of Hank's going to the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ben decide to go out again after leaving Susan at home after their second dinner with her parents?

2. Who died in the Marsten House in 1939?

3. What is unusual about the format of Chapter 3?

4. What do Ben and Matt discuss over dinner in Chapter 7?

5. Who are the tall man and the boy?

6. Which of the brothers eventually arrives home? What condition is he in?

7. Why did Ben enter the Marsten House as a nine-year-old boy?

8. Who is waiting for Ben the following evening when he leaves the boardinghouse to go to Spencer's?

9. What does the tall man drive more than forty miles to get every week?

10. How does Susan know who Ben is when she sees him in the park? What does this tell the reader about Ben's career to this point?

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