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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Changing the Rules.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the mother expect her sons to go each week, instead of watching television?
(a) To church.
(b) To the library.
(c) To do volunteer work at a nursing home.
(d) To an afterschool program.

2. What does the author say about regulations in "Changing the Rules"?
(a) He says they keep things running smoothly all the time.
(b) He says they sometimes hinder and need to be broken or ignored.
(c) He says that following them is the key to his success.
(d) He says he usually disagrees with them but follows them anyway.

3. In "Eight Years Old," what made the author feel worse than being at the bottom of his class at Higgins Elementary School?
(a) The teasing and taunting from other kids.
(b) The judgment from his mother.
(c) The principal who wrongfully accused him of cheating.
(d) The teacher who belittled him.

4. What does the author say is the truth he learned much later about his father?
(a) That his father was abused as a child.
(b) That his father had another wife and other children.
(c) That his father had a history of substance abuse.
(d) That his father did not believe in God.

5. What frightened the author at the start of "Eight Years Old" that he says are bigger than cats?
(a) Rats.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Roaches.
(d) Weeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alma Whittley help the author?

2. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?

3. What did "The Top One Hundred" program help the author learn?

4. What damage did the author do with a rock in "A Terrible Temper"?

5. What did the author consider his biggest problem in tenth grade?

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