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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. How does Peter Nilsson respond after the vandal targets Katrin?
(a) He sends Katrin to stay with her aunt.
(b) He wants homecoming canceled.
(c) He calls the chief of police.
(d) He tells Katrin not to worry.

2. What instrument does Malcolm play?
(a) The xylophone.
(b) The trombone.
(c) The French horn.
(d) The drums.

3. According to Sadie in Chapter Four, which young man did she date twice during her senior year?
(a) Vance Puckett.
(b) Chad McNulty.
(c) Peter Nilsson.
(d) Ben Coates.

4. How was Lacey murdered, as Ellery explains in Chapter Six?
(a) She was stabbed.
(b) She was poisoned.
(c) She was strangled.
(d) She was shot.

5. In Chapter Five, who begins to cry at the mention of Mr. Bowman's death?
(a) Viv.
(b) Mia.
(c) Brooke.
(d) Katrin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does the band play in Chapter Thirteen?

2. What is the name of the man killed in a hit-and-run accident?

3. What is the name of Katrin's boyfriend?

4. What is the name of the character Ellery's mother played on the 90s television show?

5. To what did the theme park change its name after the murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ryan Rodriguez? What does he do upon meeting the twins in Chapter Two? What does Ellery think about him?

2. What information does Ellery learn about Sarah in Chapter Eight?

3. What question does Viv ask Malcolm in Chapter Fourteen? How does he respond?

4. What does the reader learn about Sadie, the twins' mother, in Chapter One?

5. What is the second act of vandalism? Where does it occur? Who discovers it?

6. Who is nominated for the homecoming court, as revealed in Chapter Nine? What is the reaction to this news?

7. Who was Sadie's date to homecoming? How did she feel about him, as she explains in Chapter Twelve?

8. What odd comments does Brooke make to Malcolm in Chapter Fourteen?

9. What information do the twins get from the yearbooks in Chapter Ten?

10. Who is Viv? What does the reader learn about her in Chapters Five and Six?

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