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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katrin believe about Malcolm, as she tells Officer McNulty in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) That he had been lying to the police.
(b) That he had hurt Brooke.
(c) That he had been secretly involved with Brooke.
(d) That he had been helping Declan commit crimes.

2. According to Viv in Chapter Twenty-Three, what has she given up doing?
(a) Applying to college.
(b) Writing an article on the anniversary of Lacey's death.
(c) Searching for Brooke.
(d) Going to homecoming.

3. What was the reason Sarah was killed, as revealed to the reader in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) She was going to the police.
(b) She was pregnant.
(c) She was mistaken for Sadie.
(d) She was a prostitute.

4. What does Malcolm ask Ellery to do as they are dancing in Chapter Twenty-Seven?
(a) Visit a clown museum with him.
(b) Visit his father with him.
(c) Visit a petting zoo with him.
(d) Visit prospective colleges with him.

5. Where are Ellery and Malcolm confined in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) The garage.
(b) The attic.
(c) The basement.
(d) The shed.

6. Whom does Malcolm call in Chapter Thirty-Four?
(a) Vance Puckett.
(b) Ryan Rodriguez.
(c) Chad McNulty.
(d) Ben Coates.

7. Which person does Malcolm record committing an act of vandalism in Chapter Twenty-Nine?
(a) Viv.
(b) Declan.
(c) Katrin.
(d) Daisy.

8. What does Officer Rodriguez want Malcolm to do in Chapter Thirty-Two?
(a) Come into the station for questioning.
(b) Go straight home.
(c) Stay with friends for awhile.
(d) Leave town for good.

9. Whom does the target of the group's surveillance meet in Chapter Twenty?
(a) Kyle.
(b) Theo.
(c) Declan.
(d) Peter.

10. Who attacks Malcolm in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) Theo and Kyle.
(b) Ezra and Ellery.
(c) Peter and his mother.
(d) Katrin and Viv.

11. According to Daisy in Chapter Twenty-Four, what odd piece of jewelry did Lacey have shortly before her death?
(a) A bracelet that looked like twisted antlers.
(b) A pair of earrings that looked like daggers.
(c) A necklace that looked like bent nails.
(d) A ring that looked like barbed wire.

12. What is the title of the article that just appeared in the Burlington Free Press in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) “A Tragic Past—and a Common Thread."
(b) "A Mysterious Past—and a Puzzling Future."
(c) "A Deadly Past—and a Common Future."
(d) "A Joyful Past—and an Exciting Future."

13. Ellery thinks that the broken figurine she examines in Chapter Nineteen best represents what?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her brother.

14. As Ellery is walking alone in Chapter Thirty, she connects which two people to the Echo Ridge crimes?
(a) Liz and Kyle McNulty.
(b) Declan and Malcolm Kelly.
(c) Daisy and Mia Kwon.
(d) Katrin and Peter Nilsson.

15. What object is found by Brooke's body, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Three?
(a) Declan's cell phone.
(b) Declan's football jacket.
(c) Declan's keychain.
(d) Declan's class ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ellery and Malcolm decide to do at the end of Chapter Twenty-Six?

2. Who is a search party captain, as Malcolm learns in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. With what object does Daisy threaten Mia in Chapter Twenty-Four?

4. The news coverage Ellery watches in Chapter Thirty-Two reports what information about Brooke?

5. What does Officer Rodriguez warn Ellery against in Chapter Twenty-Nine?

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