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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 does the author describe Jean and Dagmar when he leaves them to go with Tobey's family in Chapter 6?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Quarreling.
(c) Bickering.
(d) Kissing.

2. Where were the series of joke items purchased that were played on Jean by the pianist?
(a) Wal-Mart.
(b) The movie theater.
(c) The grovery store.
(d) A novelty store.

3. How long did the pianist live in the author's mom's apartment?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. How old was the author when his father died?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 12 years old.
(c) 15 years old.
(d) 14 years old.

5. Who does Chapter 5 describe?
(a) A carnival.
(b) The author's laugh.
(c) A string of temporary boarders, renting from Dagmar.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the peak of the pianist and Jean's relationship occur?

2. How did the author's father die?

3. Where was the experimental boarding school the author describes in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 3, what did Jean need first in order to manifest his idea of making money?

5. Where did the author and his family go at the beginning of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the author sleep in Chapter 4, and why?

2. Where did Dagmar and Jean work during the winter time in Chapter 4?

3. When and who did the author visit in Florida?

4. What did the author and Tobey discover in Chapter 6?

5. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

6. As a child, where did the author go in the winter time?

7. What does the author describe that he and Tobey found together as kids?

8. What did Tobey and the author do when the author went with Tobey's family?

9. Where does the author describe the place where he attended school, in Chapter 1?

10. In Chapter 2, who does the author narrate having a frightening encounter with?

(see the answer keys)

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