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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John get revenge against his biology teacher?
(a) By having porn magazines sent to the teacher's house.
(b) By spreading rumors about the teacher.
(c) By writing dirty things about the teacher in the bathroom.
(d) By disrupting the teacher's class.

2. What happened after Jim gave the firemen this advice?
(a) They used water on the fire, but this only created an explosion.
(b) The firefighters called for backup.
(c) Firefighters rushed into the building and were injured looking for people.
(d) The firefighting efforts were slowed to a crawl because of the threat of explosives.

3. What made people think that John was a prodigy?
(a) His musical ability.
(b) His photographic memory.
(c) His quick sense of humor.
(d) His reading.

4. Where did John meet Mary Trompke?
(a) The cafeteria.
(b) The sidewalk.
(c) The engineering lab.
(d) The AV room.

5. What warning did Jim give the firemen who responded to the fire?
(a) That there were explosives in the building.
(b) That there was magnesium in the fire.
(c) That the fire was a gasoline fire.
(d) That there were people in the building.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Professor Edwards open up to John?

2. How did John's father injure John's brother Chris?

3. What did John buy when he sold his first Porsche?

4. What did John's grandfather let him do?

5. How did John Robison feel when he was around other kids?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John's life change when he started to go on the road with rock bands?

2. Describe John's attempts to act normal.

3. Describe the deterioration of John's parents' marriage in chapter 7,

4. Describe John Robison as a child.

5. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

6. What was John's relationship with Porsches after this first encounter?

7. What did John like about being a clown?

8. What does John say was his mother's reaction to the dissolution of her marriage?

9. What does John say he does to avoid his parents' troubles?

10. What story does John say he told the proud parents whose children would be going to Harvard and Smith?

(see the answer keys)

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