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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. Where does Mrs. Zinkoff put Polly's crib when Zinkoff is home?
(a) By the hallway.
(b) By the front door.
(c) In Zinkoff's room.
(d) In the kitchen.

2. What is Zinkoff most afraid of?
(a) The dark.
(b) Blood.
(c) Making people sad.
(d) The furnace.

3. What is Zinkoff's first name?
(a) Dustan.
(b) David.
(c) Don.
(d) Donald.

4. What did Zinkoff do when Miss Meeks talked about Jabip?
(a) He jumped around repeating the word.
(b) He laughed so hard he fell off his chair.
(c) He wrote the word down over and over.
(d) He got confused.

5. Where do boys run when they are told not to run in the streets?
(a) The playgrounds.
(b) The alleys.
(c) The sidewalk.
(d) The fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Zinkoff have a birthmark?

2. How is Zinkoff's stomach fixed?

3. What makes Zinkoff's teacher think he might have a developmental problem?

4. How long has Zinkoff's first teacher been teaching?

5. How does Andrew's father plan to get them moved to a new house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mr. Yalowitz different from all the other teachers Zinkoff has had?

2. How is Zinkoff described in the first chapter?

3. What does Zinkoff play in orchestra, and why?

4. What makes Zinkoff feel like the Waiting Man?

5. Why are Zinkoff's differences suddenly noticed in the 4th grade?

6. What does the narrator say the children do not notice about Zinkoff at a young age?

7. What do Zinkoff and his father do on Willow Street?

8. What happens when a bully tries to take Zinkoff's hat on the playground?

9. How is the narration of the first chapter different from the rest of the book?

10. What does Zinkoff think his mother's star stickers are?

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