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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father Schwartz yell out in his study at the end of the story?
(a) Find help!
(b) Oh, my God!
(c) Get out of here!
(d) I'm dying!

2. What does Rudolph do when he becomes angry with his father in the kitchen on Sunday morning in Chapter 3?
(a) He steps on his father's foot.
(b) He calls his father a fool.
(c) He throws his cup into the sink.
(d) He runs out of the house and slams the door.

3. After discussing what Rudolph might want to be when he grows up, what does Father ask the boy?
(a) If he would like to be a father someday.
(b) If he has ever been to a party.
(c) If he is ready to go home.
(d) If he knows how hard it is to be a clergyman.

4. Where are Rudolph and Father Schwartz at the start of Chapter 5?
(a) In a church pew.
(b) In the confessional.
(c) At Rudolph's house.
(d) Father Schwartz's study.

5. How does Rudolph feel when Father Schwartz speaks at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Outright angry.
(b) Wildly afraid.
(c) Ever so grateful.
(d) Eternally bored.

6. What does Rudolph do at the end of the story?
(a) Runs out of Father Schwartz's study.
(b) Runs to his father for help.
(c) Calls the housekeeper to help.
(d) Runs to the drugstore for medicine.

7. How does Rudolph feel after taking communion on Sunday in Chapter 4?
(a) He feels that since nothing bad happened, all will be okay.
(b) He wishes he had told his father the truth.
(c) He is happy that all is going as planned.
(d) Like he has committed a mortal sin.

8. How does Rudolph's father react to his son's anger in the kitchen on Sunday morning in Chapter 3?
(a) He leaves the house and slams the door.
(b) He attacks him.
(c) He tells Rudolph's mother.
(d) He walks away from him.

9. At the end of the story, Rudolph decides that he will not be punished for his lie. Why is that?
(a) There is no God.
(b) Because he only lied to make things better in the confessional.
(c) Father Schwartz does not know he lied.
(d) Rudolph did not lie on purpose.

10. What will "blonde Northern women and tall young guys" be doing in a few hours at the end of the story?
(a) Talking and laughing.
(b) Sleeping soundly.
(c) Lying underneath the moon.
(d) Drinking and dancing.

11. What is most important to Rudolph's father?
(a) His wife.
(b) His friends.
(c) His job.
(d) Church.

12. How are the phrases Father Schwartz mutters to Rudolph at the end of the story described?
(a) Depressing.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Heart-broken.

13. How are Rudolph's eyelashes described while he sits with Father Schwartz in Chapter 5?
(a) Like spiderwebs.
(b) Like short bristles.
(c) Like flower petals.
(d) Like sun rays.

14. What lie does Rudolph tell his father when his father is upset after finding him in the kitchen Sunday morning in Chapter 3?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) He does not know how he got there.
(c) He forgot about communion.
(d) He thought it was Friday.

15. What word does Father Schwartz repeat when he tells Rudolph what happens when groups of people get together?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Gloomy.
(c) Glimmering.
(d) Glamorous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rudolph tell his father when they got to church, which angers him?

2. How does Rudolph feel toward his mother when she tries to help after his altercation with his father in the kitchen in Chapter 3?

3. What is Rudolph's father doing when he hears footsteps in his kitchen at the start of Chapter 3?

4. What is Rudolph's father's name?

5. Why is Rudolph's father angry with him when he finds him in the kitchen in Chapter 3?

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