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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. Where do Will and Jim find the 12-year-old boy?
(a) The Mirror Maze
(b) The Bumper Cars
(c) A baseball park
(d) Miss Foley's house

2. What great thing happens to children in June?
(a) Baseball season starts
(b) The summer begins
(c) The rain stops
(d) The sun comes out

3. What does the sign advertise?
(a) Cooger & Dark's Show of Horrors
(b) Cooger & Dark's Panda Show
(c) Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show
(d) Cooger & Dark's Moving Shadows Show.

4. What does Mr. Halloway think that Jim will always see coming?
(a) The blows
(b) The chances
(c) The jobs
(d) The women

5. What does Mr. Halloway think Jim will do when he sees the blows?
(a) Laugh in their face
(b) Take them
(c) Dodge them
(d) Give them back

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy invite Will and Jim to stay for?

2. What does Jim think he hears on the library steps?

3. What do Jim and Will usually use to communicate to each other during the night?

4. Who does Jim's mother say Jim looks like?

5. What does Mr. Halloway say men despair at?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the lightning rod look like?

2. What story do Will and Jim tell the lightning rod salesman?

3. Why do the boys think it is strange that the lightning rod salesman has left his bag?

4. What is strange about the carousel?

5. How does the salesman find out whose house the storm will hit?

6. Why does Jim want to go back to the carousel?

7. How does Robert react to seeing Will and Jim outside his window?

8. How do Jim and Will react differently to watching the Theater?

9. What wakes up Jim and Will during the night?

10. What does Miss Foley think about the mirrors in her house?

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