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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dave think the parents at the Little League games wonder about him and Toph?
(a) Where their parents are
(b) If Dave is Toph's father
(c) If Toph is ill
(d) If Dave is abusing Toph

2. What do Dave and Toph eat when they watch videos?
(a) Mints
(b) Sandwiches
(c) Popsicles
(d) Popcorn

3. Where do Dave and Beth sublet an apartment?
(a) Manhatten
(b) Jefferson County
(c) Orange County
(d) Berkeley

4. Where does Beth come back from in this chapter?
(a) School
(b) The gym
(c) Work
(d) Her boyfriend's house

5. What does Dave do before the girl can tell the story to anyone else?
(a) Locks her in a cupboard
(b) Takes her to the beach
(c) Leaves the club
(d) Gives her drugs

6. What does Dave hold to his mother's nose?
(a) Snuff
(b) A towel
(c) A bowl
(d) Tissues

7. What does Dave resent in this chapter?
(a) Looking after Toph
(b) Phoning social services every morning
(c) Taking Toph to school
(d) Being the one with his parents' belongings

8. What does Dave think Toph worries about?
(a) Someone else in the family dying
(b) Doing badly at school
(c) Dave leaving him
(d) Losing Little League games

9. What does Dave fear about the older woman he is dating?
(a) Falling in love
(b) Telling a bad joke
(c) Seeing her naked
(d) Gettng her pregnant

10. What do Dave and Toph have sword fights with?
(a) Canes
(b) Ladles
(c) Spoons
(d) Bread sticks

11. What do Toph and Dave do to the house in this chapter?
(a) Put in a new kitchen
(b) Lay down carpets
(c) Tidy it
(d) Repaint it

12. Who does Dave eventually call in this chapter?
(a) Meredith
(b) Delia
(c) Janice
(d) Joan

13. What is Dave struggling to decide in this chapter?
(a) Throwing his parents' things away
(b) What job to take
(c) Who to date
(d) Where to send Toph to school

14. What does Beth talk her mother into doing?
(a) Leaving home
(b) Going to the hospital
(c) Going to work
(d) Sleep

15. What lie does Dave tell a female friend about Toph?
(a) He wets the bed
(b) He shot a friend
(c) He passed entrance exams to Harvard
(d) He is a member of mensa

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Dave and Toph have to rush to the school open house?

2. Why is Toph always late for school?

3. What do the kids do when Dave calls the police?

4. Who asks Dave about his situation?

5. Who does Dave spend all of his time with in this chapter?

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