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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. What is Sue's hobby?
(a) Praying.
(b) Singing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Drawing.

2. Who volunteers to accompany Mother on her trips to the shops?
(a) Sue.
(b) Julie.
(c) Jack.
(d) Tom.

3. The day after Mother's death, who thinks they should tell someone?
(a) Tom.
(b) Jack.
(c) Julie.
(d) Sue.

4. What do the men deliver to Jack's house?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Stones.
(c) Groceries.
(d) Cement.

5. Who does Jack see in the window when he returns home from school in Chapter 2?
(a) Julie.
(b) The neighbor.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Father doing with Jack when he has his heart attack?

2. Who do we learn is infatuated with Julie in Chapter 2?

3. What does Jack do after the ambulance takes his father?

4. Who gives a science fiction novel as a birthday gift?

5. What is Jack's father planning to make with the items that were delivered?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jack release tension in the garden at the beginning of Chapter 4? Why does he stop?

2. What do Jack's parents argue about in Chapter 1? What does his mother demand and what is his father's reaction?

3. How does Jack's acne problem affect him socially?

4. Why does the whole family attack Father verbally over a decision he made regarding Julie's extracurricular activities?

5. Why does Tom get picked on at school?

6. After they go back inside the house, what plans for Mother's body do the three older siblings discuss?

7. Where does the family celebrate Jack's birthday and why?

8. Who is present during Father's final heart attack and why is it initially unnoticed?

9. Why, in Chapter 2, does Jack begin to avoid Mother?

10. What was Jack doing and why does he run off at the end of Chapter 2?

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