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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What video game does the convenience store install?
(a) Galaga.
(b) Pac-Man.
(c) Centipede.
(d) Super Mario Brothers.

2. What does Dennis do as he is moving the joystick on the arcade game even though he has no money?
(a) Swears he will own the machine someday.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Challenges other boys in the hopes they will pay for a game for him.
(d) Makes sound effects.

3. For what does Dennis' mother think money should not be used?
(a) Fund the government's wars.
(b) Non-essentials except when they have a little extra money.
(c) To make a person happy or accepted.
(d) Frivolous pursuits.

4. What does Dennis think about when he is with his family after first encountering his first video arcade game?
(a) His upcoming tennis tryouts.
(b) How to get his father to buy him one of the games.
(c) His upcoming basketball tryouts.
(d) The game.

5. Where is another place Dennis leaves messages?
(a) On the front door clip.
(b) Hidden in the cookie jar.
(c) On family photos hanging on the wall.
(d) Under his dad's pillow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dennis find the game?

2. What is the first arcade game Dennis Ouyang ever saw?

3. What does Dennis envision as the waiter takes the family's orders when they are eating out?

4. What is the topic of one of the notes Dennis' father leaves him?

5. Why does Dennis' father "put his foot down"?

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