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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does the thirtieth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Kayla could see that Austin had done it automatically…”
(b) “February found the emptying of the dorms…”
(c) “And you’re sure they’re treating you well.”
(d) “After play practice on Tuesday…”

2. Which of the following is listed as a nineteenth century “cure” for deafness?
(a) Tungsten.
(b) Copper.
(c) Titanium.
(d) Mercury.

3. With which of the following does the thirty-second chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “February found the emptying of the dorms…”
(b) “I said, how was school?”
(c) “Kayla could see that Austin had done it automatically…”
(d) “Austin spent the rest of Tuesday evening and all of their truncated Wednesday schedule awash with humiliation…”

4. Which of the following signs off on the pizza excursion?
(a) Sybeck.
(b) Hall.
(c) Waters.
(d) Fickman.

5. What is the name of February’s assistant?
(a) Phil.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Walt.

6. With which of the following does the thirty-eighth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Charlie woke in the morning to find Slash staring at her.”
(b) “Word about Sky’s hearing…”
(c) “Charlie let the bite of her mother’s accusation ripple…”
(d) “Now Charlie’s language was burgeoning.”

7. To which of the following does Charlie’s father compare her?
(a) The Heat Miser.
(b) Scrooge.
(c) The Grinch.
(d) Herod.

8. With which of the following does the thirty-sixth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Charlie let the bite of her mother’s accusation ripple…”
(b) “Charlie woke in the morning to find Slash staring at her.”
(c) “For February, intuition was a kind of intelligence…”
(d) “Charlie was always ambivalent about the holidays.”

9. Which of the following does the novel present as “a real-life eyeth” (171)?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) Newport.
(c) Martha’s Vineyard.
(d) Montauk.

10. With which of the following does the forty-fifth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Christmas Day, for Austin, was always tinged with bitterness…”
(b) “On the afternoon of the thirty-first…”
(c) “Merry Christmas!”
(d) “As she watched Mel lean in close to the mirror…”

11. With which of the following does the forty-first chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “February spent her first week back at River Valley overwhelmed…”
(b) “The atmosphere in the dorm the night before Christmas break was charged…”
(c) “Back at school, things fell into their old rhythms.”
(d) “Wanda had seen the end of the world once before.”

12. To which of the following does Charlie compare her head?
(a) A coal mine.
(b) A field of corn.
(c) An oil field.
(d) A gas well.

13. Which of the following interrupts Charlie and Austin in their first attempted assignation?
(a) Sybeck.
(b) Gabriella.
(c) Waters.
(d) Eliot.

14. With which of the following does the twenty-eighth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Wraparound headache…”
(b) “And you’re sure they’re treating you well.”
(c) “After play practice on Tuesday…”
(d) “Now Charlie’s language was burgeoning.”

15. Which of the following schools does Kayla consider attending?
(a) Wilberforce.
(b) Haskell.
(c) Voorhees.
(d) Bacone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color lipstick does Austin’s grandmother wear?

2. Which of the following sports does Charlie’s mother’s love watching on Christmas?

3. What is Austin’s mother’s name?

4. With which of the following does the thirty-first chapter of the novel begin?

5. Which of the following does Austin’s family serve for dinner on New Year’s Eve?

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