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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Fulghum talks about waiting for a repair man in Chapter 2, how long does Fulghum claim you would have to stay home for?
(a) Forty hours.
(b) Twenty-four hours.
(c) Thirty-six hours.
(d) Thirteen hours.

2. What does Fulghum say can be bought for 35 cents at Bob Everette's Drugstore?
(a) A Moon Pie.
(b) A Coke float.
(c) A package of famous pecans.
(d) A flavored coffee.

3. What especially does Fulghum say we yell at besides bills and banks and traffic and umpires?
(a) Machines.
(b) Professional sports.
(c) Cops.
(d) Kids.

4. At the end of Chapter 12, what does Fulghum claim would make a good bumper sticker for the eighties?
(a) "I may be wrong."
(b) "I can fix it."
(c) "Love and learn."
(d) "Don't look now."

5. Fulghum states that laundry detergent is called something in a box. What is that something?
(a) A magic potion.
(b) A miracle.
(c) A guarantee.
(d) A cleaner.

6. When Fulghum discovers the animals mating underneath his porch, what are the animals covered in?
(a) Mud and blood.
(b) Leaves and mud.
(c) Blood and grass.
(d) Leaves and grass.

7. Fulghum describes the bus of his lawyer friend as decorated like the set for what?
(a) "Beauty and the Beast."
(b) "Little Shop of Horrors."
(c) "Romeo and Juliet."
(d) "Alice in Wonderland."

8. What did the soldiers and priests build in San Saba to accommodate them?
(a) A fort, a mission chapel, and a shooting range.
(b) A fort.
(c) A mission chapel.
(d) A fort and a mission chapel.

9. How many years was Charles Boyer married to his wife?
(a) Forty-seven.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Fifty-two.

10. When Fulghum is finished eating his chicken-friend steak in San Saba, what flavor of toothpick does he use?
(a) Peppermint.
(b) Wintergreen.
(c) Bubblegum.
(d) Chocolate mint.

11. At the end of Chapter 8, Fulghum claims he is sure of something, what is that thing he is sure of?
(a) That it is possible to lose someone you love and not cry.
(b) That Charles Boyer didn't know what he was talking about.
(c) That is possible to love someone as much as Charles Boyer loved his wife.
(d) That it is possible to live in Hollywood and still love your wife.

12. When the opposing tribe showed up in San Saba to fight the soldiers, what color of war paint did they wear?
(a) Black.
(b) Red and black.
(c) Red.
(d) Red, black, and yellow.

13. On August 24, where are the military units from that enter Angola in an offensive against the black nationalist guerrillas?
(a) Spain.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Germany.
(d) India.

14. What color of tissue paper does the gummy lump box in Chapter 9 contain?
(a) Red.
(b) Orange.
(c) Pink.
(d) Yellow.

15. Fulghum says that the neighbor lady thinks the spider is as big as what?
(a) A bat.
(b) A lobster.
(c) A cat.
(d) A bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fulghum claims it's too bad that the villagers on the Solomon Islands don't have the advantages of modern technology and what kind of mind?

2. Fulghum states that every year he writes a personal statement or credo. What time of year does he say he writes this credo?

3. When Fulghum sees his neighbor lady coming out her front door, what kind of mode does she say she is in?

4. In Chapter 5 about the abacus, Fulghum claims there are millions of people that still use the abacus. Where are these people located?

5. In the story of San Saba, the men had come in search of treasure. Where was this treasure supposedly located?

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