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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 does Cal think Zachary is lying about in Chapter 7?
(a) Being baptised.
(b) How he got all his baseball cards.
(c) Weighing 600 lbs.
(d) Having a girlfriend.

2. Where do Toby and Cal leave a sack of groceries?
(a) At the food pantry.
(b) On Zachary's step.
(c) At the bowling alley.
(d) At the grocery store.

3. Who breaks the trailer window?
(a) Paulie.
(b) Cal.
(c) Toby.
(d) Juan.

4. Who tells the boys that Kate passed her driving test?
(a) Kate.
(b) Mr. McKnight.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) Billy.

5. What does Toby learn in the letter he receives in Chapter 11?
(a) That Wayne wants Cal to write to him.
(b) That his mother is not coming home.
(c) That Paulie is mad because he's been hanging out with Zachary.
(d) The Cal knows Toby wrote a letter on his behalf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sheriff's favorite animal?

2. What kind of car does Wayne own?

3. What was hauling the sideshow trailer?

4. Which book do Toby and Cal use as the authoritative resource in their research?

5. What was made of the foil taken from the cake?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Scarlett's relationship with Juan so important to her?

2. Why does Miss Myrtie Mae appear when the crowd starts to form at the trailer when it arrives in Chapter 1?

3. What strikes Toby as unusual when Zachary tells him about his travels in Paris? What does it make Toby think?

4. What help does Zachary ask from Toby and Cal when the sheriff takes them to visit?

5. What is ironic about Kate's announcement that she passed her driver's test and now has her license?

6. What is the first food item the boys leave on the trailer step for Zachary"

7. In the letter from Wayne that Cal reads to Toby on top of the bowling alley, what does Wayne write about?

8. Why does Cal always get up so early?

9. Why does Toby quickly march Tara out of the sideshow trailer on their first visit there?

10. What is unusual about the letter Toby writes in Chapter 8?

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