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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 takes Jack aback the first time he sees Ruana?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) How dirty her house is.
(c) Her ugliness.
(d) How she looks just like Susie.

2. Why is Ruth's mother pleased to find her daughter smoking in the shed?
(a) Because she thinks this means Ruth has made friends.
(b) Because she is a big fan of marijuana.
(c) Her mother is not at all pleased to find her daughter smoking in the shed.
(d) Because at least she stopped smoking in her bedroom.

3. Who is Nate?
(a) Buckley's cousin.
(b) Buckley's stepbrother.
(c) Buckley's friend.
(d) Buckley's imaginary friend.

4. What did Mr. Harvey's father do for a living?
(a) He worked on computers.
(b) He never really had a reliable job or income.
(c) He was a cobbler.
(d) He was a jeweler.

5. What does Mr. Harvey look at when he cannot sleep?
(a) The fire in the fireplace.
(b) His father's sketchbooks.
(c) His mother's jewelry.
(d) His comic books.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Buckley when Susie dies?

2. What item did Mr. Harvey offer Susie to make her more comfortable in his secret room?

3. What picture does Lindsey find in Susie's room when she enters it for the first time after her death?

4. What board game do the Salmon family play on the first Christmas after Susie died?

5. Which two characters kiss each other while visiting Jack in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Mr. Harvey's father give to him about how to construct buildings?

2. Who is Claire?

3. How does Mr. Harvey ultimately kill Susie?

4. How does Mr. Harvey react when Jack accuses him of being involved in his daughter's death?

5. After Susie's murder, Lindsey has a rough time at school. What is it about school that makes her so angry?

6. What does Jack's breaking of the ships in the bottle symbolize?

7. How does Mr. Harvey dispose of Susie's body?

8. After Susie is murdered, what does Jack want desperately from his dead daughter?

9. How does Susie respond to Buckley's claim that he can see her ghost?

10. When Buckley keeps asking where his sister is immediately after her murder, why do his parents suggest going to the zoo?

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