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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Heartbreak.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say was an embarrassing and painful experience at Hunter Junior High?
(a) Learning about General Custer.
(b) Eating lunch.
(c) Capping.
(d) Gym class.

2. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Play basketball.
(b) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.
(c) Work at a gas station.
(d) Tutor his friends.

3. What concept allowed Maranda to manage well without the left half of her brain?
(a) Plasticity.
(b) Serendipity.
(c) Relativity.
(d) Multiplicity.

4. What did Aubrey Tompkins suggest when Candy's audition at the church did not work out?
(a) That she sing in the choir.
(b) That she keep practicing.
(c) That she go home.
(d) That she try harder next time.

5. How old was the author when he was baptized for the second time?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?

2. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?

3. What was Candy Rustin's real name in "A Serious Step"?

4. How much blood did Maranda lose during the hemispherectomy?

5. What did the Yale admissions office pay for the author and Candy to do before Thanksgiving 1972?

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