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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. What does Dave think Toph worries about?
(a) Doing badly at school
(b) Someone else in the family dying
(c) Losing Little League games
(d) Dave leaving him

2. What does Dave resent in this chapter?
(a) Taking Toph to school
(b) Looking after Toph
(c) Phoning social services every morning
(d) Being the one with his parents' belongings

3. What can Dave not convince Toph to do?
(a) Do his homework
(b) Clean up
(c) Go to school
(d) Move in with Beth

4. What do the kids help Dave do?
(a) Search the beach
(b) Search a bar
(c) Find a phone
(d) Find a policeman

5. Where is Dave's family home?
(a) Illinois
(b) Virginia
(c) New York
(d) Seattle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave want women to understand about him?

2. Who carries Dave and Beth's mother to the car?

3. Where are Dave's friends from?

4. Where do Dave and Beth want to move to?

5. Who goes with Toph to his Little League games?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dave call a nurse rather than take his mother to the hospital?

2. How does Dave feel when he finally leaves Toph with a babysitter?

3. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

4. Why doesn't Dave like telling people why he has to look after Toph?

5. Summarize Chapter 4.

6. How does Dave help his mother in the first chapter?

7. How does Dave act in the club with his friends?

8. Why does Dave feel uncomfortable when he takes Toph to Little League games?

9. How does Dave's situation change at the beginning of chapter 3?

10. What does Dave do when he gets lonely in Chapter 5?

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