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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. Whom does Lexie arrive with when she meets Antsy and his friends to test the dummy?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Antsy's father.
(c) Frankie.
(d) Old Man Crawley.

2. Whom does Old Man Crawley insist ride with him in the ambulance?
(a) The Schwa.
(b) Lexie.
(c) Antsy.
(d) The Schwa's father.

3. Where was the Schwa when his mother went missing?
(a) A carnival.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) Church.
(d) A hospital.

4. Where do Antsy and Lexie go on their first date in the novel?
(a) A hockey game.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) Ice skating.
(d) The movies.

5. Where does Antsy finally find the Schwa in Chapter 18?
(a) The school.
(b) Crawley's restaurant.
(c) The pier.
(d) Antsy's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

2. Antsy tells his mother he would never want her to ______________.

3. For how long did the Schwa rent the billboard?

4. What does the Schwa show Antsy from the day his mother disappeared?

5. Antsy remembers the Schwa when what falls on the floor from his mother's recipe cards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What excitement does Antsy face when he goes to Crawley's in Chapter 11?

2. What does Antsy discover upon returning home in Chapter 20?

3. What does Antsy's father announce at a family meeting in Chapter 13?

4. Where is Old Man Crawley taken in Chapter 17?

5. What does Old Man Crawley offer Antsy to stay with him in the hospital?

6. What does the Night Butcher reveal about the Schwa's mother in Chapter 19?

7. How are Crawley's fears relative to the Schwa?

8. How is Manny Bullpucky's head recovered in Chapter 13? What are the boys' plans for it?

9. Why does Antsy realize there is no traffic on the expressway? What does this mean about the billboard?

10. What does Antsy realize about his mother in Chapter 15?

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