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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. By Chapter 7, The Lord's Prayer, how does Dave tolerate physical pain?
(a) He is disconnected from it.
(b) Even light slaps feel like torture.
(c) He can barely stand it.
(d) It is worse than ever.

2. When is the only time Dave ever has his prayers answered?
(a) When he prays that his mother gets hurt, she sprains her ankle.
(b) When he prays for food, his father sneaks him a sandwich.
(c) When he prays for to get through the day, he does.
(d) When he was five, he prayed for his mother to get sick and she did.

3. Who does Dave hate more than anyone else?
(a) Himself.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brothers.
(d) His father.

4. What does Dave realize after years of struggling?
(a) America is not really the home of the free.
(b) In America, you can come from less and still become a winner.
(c) He does not want to live in America.
(d) America is against the downtrodden.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the new baby's name?

3. What is the code of Dave's family?

4. What does Dave's father do to ease Dave's burden in Chapter 6, While Father is Away?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Dave's thoughts when his father leaves for good?

2. Describe Dave's behavior in the classroom one a day during the winter of 1973.

3. As Dave enters fifth grade, what is his frame of mind?

4. Describe why Dave is so fascinated with a piece of driftwood that is washing ashore in the Epilogue.

5. How does Dave look positively at his abusive past?

6. Summarize the incidents that happen to Dave on the day his mother takes his brothers to the zoo.

7. Describe where Dave brings his son in the Epilogue and his emotions at that time.

8. How does the school nurse become interested in Dave's condition in Chapter 6, While Father is Away?

9. Describe the people Dave encounters after he is rescued.

10. Describe what Dave does when he finds that his stab wound is infected.

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