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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is so strange about Ezra's, Jeremy's co-worker at Video Hut, car accident?
(a) Ezra's car accident happens in the middle of the night when Ezra should have been working at Video Hut.
(b) Ezra gets into the car accident out near Collins, which is out of the way to where Ezra would normally be traveling home.
(c) Ezra's car accident is due to unknown circumstances.
(d) Ezra gets into a car accident near Sarah Jane's house, and Jeremy wonders what he is doing there.

2. Who does Ezra live with?
(a) Ezra lives alone.
(b) Ezra lives with his mother and father.
(c) Ezra lives with his stepfather.
(d) Ezra lives with his sister, Stephanie.

3. What connection does Stephanie make about the two of the videos at lunch?
(a) Stephanie wants Jeremy to see that the length of the two scenes is the same: nine minutes.
(b) Stephanie is certain the two videos were made from the same person.
(c) Stephanie says that the woman in both videos is the same.
(d) Stephanie sees that the same shed/building is in the videos.

4. What does Sarah Jane take with her after briefly visiting Video Hut after not being there for days?
(a) Sarah Jane takes the video, "Targets."
(b) Sarah Jane steals Jeremy's backpack.
(c) Sarah Jane takes videos with specifically chosen titles.
(d) Sarah Jane takes all the money from the register.

5. What is the first job Jeremy's father, Steve, recommends Jeremy take?
(a) Steve wants Jeremy to file for disability.
(b) Steve recommends that Jeremy quit his job, stay home, and take care of the animals.
(c) Steve tells Jeremy to take a manager's position at Video Hut.
(d) Steve recommends that Jeremy get a job at a new soil/water labs.

6. What metaphor does the narrator make about snakes to people on Page 62?
(a) People are similar to snakes, because try to shed their skin or past experiences, yet those experiences are always with them.
(b) People and snakes both have to be free agents, shed their skin, and become new again.
(c) Snakes have to be cunning and smart; people have to approach life in the same way to survive.
(d) People move on without thinking of the events they have left behind in the same way a snake leaves its shed skin; it is not their fault for what is left behind.

7. What does Jeremy confess to Sarah Jane about watching the video, "She's All That"?
(a) Jeremy confesses to Sarah Jane that he saw a dark video with a man hurting a woman.
(b) Jeremy reveals that he saw people being tortured.
(c) Jeremy tells Sarah Jane that he saw a barn with people in it.
(d) Jeremy tells Sarah Jane that he saw Lisa Sample's house.

8. What does Jeremy state that he wants Steve's girlfriend to do?
(a) Jeremy states that he wants Steve's girlfriend to take care of his dad.
(b) Jeremy states that he wants Steve's girlfriend to marry his father.
(c) Jeremy says that Steve's girlfriend should leave them alone.
(d) Jeremy requests that Steve's girlfriend stop trying to be Jeremy's mother.

9. What sport did Steve's girlfriend Shauna play in college?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Softball.
(d) Badminton.

10. Who does Jeremy's father, Steve, have dinner with at Spaghetti Works in Des Moines?
(a) Bob Veatch.
(b) Sarah Jane.
(c) Shauna Kinzer.
(d) Shauna Wright.

11. When Sarah Jane encounters Lisa Sample out in Collins at a farmhouse, what lie does she tell Lisa to gain access to seeing her shed?
(a) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because it is in one of Video Huts videos.
(b) Sarah Jane says she needs to look at the shed, because her father is building a toolshed himself.
(c) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed for a college project.
(d) Sarah Jane says she needs to see the shed, because Sarah Jane used to live there.

12. What is Jeremy's father, Steve Heldt, doing when Jeremy returns home in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Steve is making dinner.
(b) Steve is cleaning the gutters.
(c) Steve is watching a movie.
(d) Steve is yelling at Jeremy's mother, Lisa Sample.

13. What is different about Jeremy's copy of the video,"Targets" in Part One?
(a) Jeremy's copy has two scenes not present in the original video.
(b) Jeremy's copy has one scene not present in the original video.
(c) Jeremy's copy shows a scene with a crying woman.
(d) Jeremy's copy is broken, and he cannot figure out how to play it.

14. How does Jeremy summarize his impression of family gatherings in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) Jeremy says that his family comes together and bonds about their heritage.
(b) Jeremy says that the gathering are surface, like gossip.
(c) Jeremy feels that he is left out of the conversation at family gatherings.
(d) Jeremy thinks that they are entertaining.

15. What is in the picture Sarah Jane shows Lisa Sample?
(a) Lisa Sample's farmhouse.
(b) Three people with hoods over their heads.
(c) Lisa Sample's shed.
(d) A man with a mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Stephanie give to Jeremy during their meeting in Part One, Chapter 10?

2. At the start of the novel, why does Stephanie want Jeremy to talk to Sarah Jane, the owner of Video Hut?

3. At the start of Part One, Chapter 8, when Sarah Jane does return to the store, what reason does she give to Jeremy for her absence?

4. Where is the setting of the story?

5. Why does Sarah Jane tell Jeremy that she should have called him and let him come to work late according to Part One, Chapter 3?

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