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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major project is the Parks Department working on?
(a) Planting spring bulbs.
(b) Removing the diseased elm trees.
(c) Street sweeping.
(d) Filling potholes.

2. What appears in the window of Cecilia's old bedroom?
(a) Easter decorations.
(b) A stained-glass decoration.
(c) A candle shrine.
(d) A revolving Chinese lantern.

3. What do Trip and Lux do under the bleachers?
(a) Make love.
(b) Drink peach schnapps.
(c) Smoke cigarettes.
(d) Dance.

4. What do Lux and Julie do instead of going to class?
(a) Meet boys behind the school.
(b) Read magazines.
(c) Smoke cigarettes.
(d) Go out for coffee.

5. What object appears randomly around the neighborhood, including under windshield wipers and between bicycle spokes?
(a) Notes from the Lisbon girls.
(b) Plastic flowers.
(c) Rosaries.
(d) Laminated pictures of the Virgin Mary.

6. What spring activity do the girls not attend as usual?
(a) A May Day dance.
(b) Spring carnival.
(c) Graduation.
(d) Home baseball games.

7. How does Therese communicate with the outside world?
(a) The telephone.
(b) Her ham radio.
(c) She meets a friend in her backyard.
(d) A pen pal.

8. What happens to Mr. Lisbon over Christmas vacation?
(a) He buys a new car.
(b) He has a heart attack.
(c) He leaves his job.
(d) He learns to ski.

9. What is Mary's favorite occupation?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Reading romance novels.
(c) Painting.
(d) Looking at herself in the mirror.

10. What does Mr. Lisbon use paint cans for in Chapter 4?
(a) Mixing paint.
(b) Catching water leaks.
(c) Storing tools.
(d) Watering plants.

11. What do the girls order to help them escape their boredom?
(a) Records.
(b) Books.
(c) Catalogues.
(d) The newspaper.

12. What does Mrs. Lisbon force Lux to destroy?
(a) Her rock and roll records.
(b) Her makeup.
(c) Some of her books.
(d) Her sexy clothing.

13. Where do the boys find Trip, years later, to interview him?
(a) Working a construction job.
(b) In a hospital.
(c) In Europe.
(d) In rehab.

14. When the boys call the Lisbon girls the second time, what do they do?
(a) They hang up when Lux answers.
(b) They profess their love for the girls.
(c) They play a song over the phone.
(d) They read a poem.

15. What does Bonnie do outside the house each night?
(a) Tends a small flower garden.
(b) Says a rosary for Cecilia.
(c) Has a chat with Uncle Tucker.
(d) Takes a walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the boys wait for the Lisbon girls' signal the night of June 15?

2. What class does Lux Lisbon often skip with Julie Winthrop?

3. What do the Lisbons do with the flowers they receive?

4. What song's lyrics are published in the newspaper as a possible cause of the Lisbon girls' suicides?

5. Which of the following is not a condition of the girls' attendance at the Homecoming dance?

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