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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Sonoma County, California.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Dave feel the most alone?
(a) When his father leaves for work.
(b) When he goes to bed.
(c) When he is in school.
(d) When he sits on the stairs.

2. By Chapter 7, The Lord's Prayer, when does Dave believe he will be free of his mother?
(a) When she dies and goes to hell.
(b) When he kills her.
(c) When his father has her arrested.
(d) When he runs away.

3. How does Dave feel as he looks at the rundown cabin where his family used to vacation?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Happy that it's falling down.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

4. What is the first thing Dave does when he gets to school in Chapter 1, The Rescue?
(a) He goes to the lunch room for milk.
(b) He goes to the school office and is then sent to the nurse.
(c) He goes to the auditorium for assembly.
(d) He goes to his homeroom.

5. What does Dave refuse to do in Chapter 7, The Lord's Prayer despite how his mother treats him?
(a) Cry.
(b) Stand in the garden.
(c) Sit on the stairs.
(d) Go to the basement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the secret that Dave learns quickly from his bad situation?

2. What does Dave say when people at school ask him the cause of his bruises?

3. What do two of Dave's classmates tell him to do when they are on a field trip on a clipper ship?

4. What is Dave thinking as he stands facing the beauty of the Pacific Ocean in the Epilogue?

5. What are the contents of the lunch Dave's mother has been making him every day for three years?

(see the answer key)

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