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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Wolfgang have a job?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Nashville.
2. What does Gunnar's mother tell him to go get after they arrive at their new house?
(a) Breakfast for the family.
(b) A haircut.
(c) Some new clothes.
(d) A city bus pass.
3. What was Euripides Kaufman's position in life?
(a) He owned a farm in Pennsylvania.
(b) A slave in Boston.
(c) The servant in a New York mansion.
(d) He was a Baptist minister.
4. How does Gunnar feel about Eileen?
(a) He doesn't know her.
(b) He is irritated at her.
(c) He has a crush on her.
(d) He hates her.
5. For what is Gunnar known among his friends?
(a) His sense of humor.
(b) Making teachers angry.
(c) Being studious.
(d) Knowing how to get alcohol to drink.
6. What does Gunnar say the majority of the playground jokes concern?
(a) They are mostly ethnic jokes.
(b) They are mostly jokes about teachers.
(c) They are mostly jokes about sex.
(d) They are mostly gang jokes.
7. What does Franz do for the rest of his life?
(a) Goes to the train station every evening.
(b) Look for a new job.
(c) Try to find Compton.
(d) Polish Compton's shoes every night.
8. What inspires Swen to create a new dance?
(a) Listening to Abraham Lincoln make a speech.
(b) Seeing his first born.
(c) Falling in love.
(d) Hearing slaves singing.
9. What does Gunnar do before they move?
(a) Steals the car keys so they can't move.
(b) Writes all his friends a letter.
(c) Gets kicked out of school.
(d) Wrecks the house.
10. What does Gunnar do in the store?
(a) Try out the merchandise.
(b) Helps the janitor.
(c) Read books.
(d) Talks to the sales clerks.
11. What does Gunnar notice when he looks at the photographs in the display cases on his first day of school?
(a) How only the good looking students are shown.
(b) That the students in the first years of the school look older.
(c) How much the clothing has changed in fifty years.
(d) How the racial demographics have changed over the years.
12. What two girls never take no for an answer from Gunnar?
(a) Kathy and Linda.
(b) Betty and Veronica.
(c) Penny and Felicia.
(d) Sally and Mary.
13. Why did Gunnar get in trouble sometimes at the beach?
(a) For playing pranks.
(b) For getting in fists fights.
(c) For being black.
(d) For fishing off the pier.
14. Where do Gunnar and Nick have lunch sometimes to escape the school crowds?
(a) At the library.
(b) Outside in the bleachers around the track.
(c) The coach's office.
(d) In the gym.
15. What does Gunnar ask his mother to get him?
(a) Some books on jazz.
(b) Basketball shoes.
(c) A new stereo.
(d) An Iphone.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the receptionist tell Gunnar his aptitude suggests?
2. What kind of summer camp does Gunnar's mother want them to go to?
3. For what is Swen Kaufman known?
4. Where does Wolfgang get a job when he moves?
5. When Gunnar reads what is his favorite kind of book?
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