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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eddie perceive graduation?
(a) Like a sporting event.
(b) Like a "McDonald's event."
(c) The end to one chapter in his life.
(d) Like Mass.

2. Who helps Eddie send off his college applications?
(a) Bippo.
(b) Brother O'Connell.
(c) Tom.
(d) Tim.

3. What does Mr. Kasher disregard that makes the students like him?
(a) The 'system.'
(b) All rules.
(c) Adhering to religious rules.
(d) Their feelings.

4. What does the typing teacher do during class?
(a) Gives the students odd jobs.
(b) Plays games.
(c) Get the students to listen to his enlightening lectures.
(d) Ignores the students.

5. What is the feeling the reader gets about Eddie's future, at the end of Do Black Patent-leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
(a) He will marry Una.
(b) He will be productive.
(c) He will be unsuccessful.
(d) He will become a teacher.

6. What are the senior boys counseled to do after they graduate from high school, in Chapter 11, Retreat, Retreat?
(a) To marry only a Catholic.
(b) To find a job.
(c) To find a stable job and marry a good Catholic girl.
(d) To do mission work.

7. What does Eddie's guidance tell him he should consider joining?
(a) The Navy.
(b) The Army.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Marines.

8. What does the Catholic Church want to control strictly in the 1950s and 1960s?
(a) Its religious views.
(b) Its beliefs.
(c) Its "flock."
(d) Its sacredness.

9. What has arrived, in Chapter 16, Final?
(a) Prom.
(b) Summer.
(c) College.
(d) Graduation.

10. What type of surgery does Una have?
(a) Colonoscopy.
(b) An appendectomy.
(c) Her wisdom teeth are taken out.
(d) Tonsillectomy.

11. What is Felix interested in, in Chapter 10, Double Dating with Felix Lindor?
(a) Lots of touching.
(b) Singing.
(c) Kissing.
(d) Girls.

12. Who was in their backyard as Eddie passed by their house?
(a) Felix.
(b) Una.
(c) Tim.
(d) Tom.

13. Who does Eddie sell his first car to?
(a) Bippo.
(b) Felix.
(c) Tim.
(d) A boy in his neighborhood.

14. What happens annually at St. Bremmer?
(a) A service of devotion.
(b) A guest speaker.
(c) Prom.
(d) A retreat.

15. Who does Felix ask to double date with him?
(a) Tim.
(b) Tom.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Bippo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives the students their diplomas?

2. What emotional state does Eddie's commentary reflect about Mr. Kascher being the only good teacher he ever had?

3. What happens after Timmy's final senior performance?

4. What does Eddie, as an adult, realize about Mr. Kascher?

5. How many hours is school dismissed early at winter break?

(see the answer keys)

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