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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 a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Simile.

2. What does the Night Butcher say Schwa's mother did at the meat counter on the day she disappeared?
(a) Asked what was on sale.
(b) Argued about the prices.
(c) Broke down crying.
(d) Sampled a package of shrimp.

3. In Chapter 20, what do Antsy's parents ask when he arrives home?
(a) Where he has been.
(b) How he is feeling.
(c) Why he is home late.
(d) What the weather outside is like.

4. What does the Night Butcher tell Antsy when he speaks to him?
(a) He is going to get fired.
(b) He knows what happened to the Schwa's mother.
(c) He shouldn't be in the store.
(d) He is asking too many questions.

5. Who gets Manny Bullpucky's head back from a lady who found it in her hedge for Antsy in Chapter 13?
(a) Howie.
(b) The Schwa.
(c) Ira.
(d) Frankie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Lexie arrive with when she meets Antsy and his friends to test the dummy?

2. What does Lexie ask for at the restaurant in Chapter 12?

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

4. When Antsy finds Crawley in Chapter 11, Antsy gives the old man some of the painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills that were prescribed the last time he did what?

5. Who does Antsy believe will be upset when Lexie kisses him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Antsy and Lexie relate to one another as characters? How is this evidenced in Chapter 12?

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

4. What do Antsy and Lexie set to find out in Chapter 15?

5. What does Lexie demand at the restaurant in Chapter 12? What organization does she tell Antsy about?

6. Whom does Antsy go to talk to at the supermarket in Chapter 16?

7. How does the Schwa react to the Night Butcher's story in Chapter 19?

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

9. What conversation takes place between Antsy and Lexie when he walks her home in Chapter 13?

10. Why does Antsy believe Crawley wants him to stay with him?

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