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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 had the creature outside Neil's window been doing, according to Neil?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Whispering.
(d) Crying.

2. How long has it been since Tom wrote anything, as revealed in Chapter 13?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 year.

3. Nearly all of the pictures Jake draws are of what types of scenes?
(a) Dances.
(b) Battles.
(c) Murders.
(d) Bank robberies.

4. In Chapter 5, when Jake and Tom get ready to move, how many months have passed since Rebecca's death?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 18.

5. What is the name of Karen's son, as revealed in Chapter 13?
(a) Adam.
(b) Matt.
(c) Fred.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of the Detective Inspector named Amanda, whose perspective is presented in Chapter 6?

2. Which character was referred to in the newspapers as "The Whisper Man" (36)?

3. What is the name of the worker at the 567 Club who is kind to Jake?

4. Which character bullies Jake by saying that Jake had taken Neil Spencer's classroom chair?

5. Jake describes the feeling of remembering this mother Rebecca is dead with the sound what food makes when it is chopped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of Jake's drawing bothers Tom in Chapter 8?

2. What piece of information does Mrs. Spencer remember and tell Amanda that causes Amanda to race to meet with Colin, her superior?

3. In what way does the final line of Chapter 1 refer back to the novel's title and why?

4. From whose perspective is the beginning of Chapter 1 narrated and what is the setting?

5. What mysterious elements are included in the prologue of the novel? Discuss one that is explained within the first seven chapters.

6. What does Jake tell his father Tom in Chapter 11 that convinces Tom to honor the boy's request to sleep in his father's bed?

7. When the girl in the checked white-and-blue dress repeats the whole rhyme to Jake in Chapter 17, what acts does it warn against taking?

8. At what point in the investigation of Neil Spencer's disappearance does Pete get officially involved?

9. When Pete visits Frank Carter in prison in Chapter 15, Frank Carter says that he will give up Tony Smith's whereabouts if Pete takes what action?

10. How did Jake learn about the death of his mother, Rebecca?

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