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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many burrowers circle Kevin in Chapter 38?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

2. How is William Campbell Philips described?
(a) As a charmer.
(b) As a bully.
(c) As an intelligent man.
(d) As a recluse.

3. Where does Jim go with the object he gets from the closet in Chapter 23?
(a) Mike's house.
(b) The baseball diamond.
(c) The woods.
(d) The library.

4. Where do the boys go from the belfry in Chapter 41?
(a) To the basement.
(b) To the roof of the school.
(c) To their homes.
(d) To the Cave.

5. Who is Wink?
(a) The school's former principal.
(b) The town drunk.
(c) The former sheriff.
(d) The old post master.

6. What emerges from the soldier's mouth when it attacks the priest?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Flies.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Worms.

7. What does Lawrence drop on the floor in Chapter 36?
(a) His baseball cards.
(b) His comic.
(c) His yo-yo.
(d) His toothbrush.

8. Where does Mike decide to sleep in Chapter 35?
(a) At the McBride farm.
(b) At the Stewarts'.
(c) At the Cooke house.
(d) In his grandmother's room.

9. According to Cordie, what do the men who killed Tubby and Duane want?
(a) Flesh.
(b) Brains.
(c) Organs.
(d) Blood.

10. Who makes a love confession to Mike in Chapter 30?
(a) Laura.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Cordie.

11. Who disappears from his bed in Chapter 30?
(a) The Sheriff.
(b) Father Cavanaugh.
(c) Mr. Sperling.
(d) Mr. McBride.

12. How did the town come to realize that the man executed was innocent?
(a) Another man confessed to the crimes.
(b) The man's alibi was later proven true.
(c) A kidnapped child insisted he was innocent.
(d) Two more children went missing.

13. What do the boys devise a plan to destroy in Chapter 32?
(a) The tunnels around town.
(b) The rendering truck.
(c) The belfry.
(d) Van Skye's shed.

14. Who admitted to planting evidence on the executed man?
(a) Van Skye's uncle.
(b) William Campbell Phillips.
(c) One of the Moon children.
(d) Mr. Ashley-Montague Jr.

15. How does Mike explain Father Cavanaugh's death to the sheriff in Chapter 35?
(a) The Father had a heart attack.
(b) The Father was shot by Dr. Roon.
(c) The Father was attacked by a strange creature.
(d) The Father ran in front of the truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Mike come across in the tunnel after several hundred yards in Chapter 38?

2. When he accompanies the priest to the cemetery, what does Mike take with him?

3. When delirious with fever, who does Mike imagine he is conversing with?

4. Who appears to help Kevin in Chapter 38.

5. Where does Duane's father decide to move?

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