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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fulghum states that inspiration for brevity came from a particular place. What was this place?
(a) The local farmer's market.
(b) The gasoline station.
(c) The barbershop.
(d) The grocery store.

2. In Chapter 15, what game does Fulghum claim he likes better than hide-and-seek?
(a) Sardines.
(b) Ring around the rosies.
(c) London Bridge.
(d) Red Rover.

3. When Fulghum tells of dancing after the goat roping rodeo, he talks of dancing and hoping to God that you don't do what?
(a) Fall over.
(b) Throw up.
(c) Dance too awkwardly.
(d) Kiss the wrong girl.

4. What kind of insect does the Cassida Rubignosa have to defend itself from in the book?
(a) A grasshopper.
(b) An ant.
(c) A praying mantis.
(d) A ladybug.

5. How long do the woodsmen in the Solomon Islands continue their ritual for one tree?
(a) Fifteen days.
(b) Forty-five days.
(c) Thirty days.
(d) Twenty-two days.

6. In Chapter 9, what does Fulghum claim he thinks about every morning as he dresses?
(a) His wife and how hard she works.
(b) The kind of lunch he will have in the afternoon.
(c) The gummy lump box.
(d) His kids.

7. What crayon name does Fulghum say is the only crayon name that has been changed?
(a) Grass.
(b) Teardrop.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Flesh.

8. In the Solomon Islands, the villagers practice a unique form of what?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Plowing.
(c) Logging.
(d) Baking.

9. Fulghum tells a story about a man who faced a computer with his abacus. What was this man's occupation?
(a) He was a senior clerk for a shipping company.
(b) He was the CEO of a computer manufacturing company.
(c) He was a woodworker.
(d) He was a chairman over the construction of new high rises in China.

10. According to Fulghum, where is all the software needed to run an abacus?
(a) In a book.
(b) In your fingers.
(c) Between your ears.
(d) Under your nose.

11. What does Fulghum claim his next-door neighbor yelled at for most of an afternoon?
(a) His garden hose.
(b) His horse.
(c) His rain gutters.
(d) A stepladder.

12. Fulghum says that no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world it is best to do what?
(a) Hold hands and stick together.
(b) Have a friend who is close.
(c) Look for rainbows.
(d) Carry an umbrella.

13. Fulghum states hamsters, white mice, and the little seed in the Styrofoam cup still die in the end. What other thing does Fulghum mention besides these three things?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Horses.
(c) Goldfish.
(d) Dogs.

14. In the story of San Saba, Fulghum tells us that two thousand people from a certain tribe showed up to fight the soldiers and priests. What tribe did they come from?
(a) Ute.
(b) Apache.
(c) Comanche.
(d) Cherokee.

15. Fulghum tells the reader that he visited San Saba to court a lady, but even after he and the lady were over he still went there for what reason?
(a) To work at a local store.
(b) To find peace and quiet.
(c) To eat a good home cooked meal.
(d) To buy beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of laundry detergent does Fulghum claim he uses?

2. Charles' wife discovers she has cancer where?

3. In the chapter about the neighbor woman and the spider, Fulghum states that spiders have been around for how many years?

4. What two words of wisdom does Fulghum's lawyer friend tell him?

5. What did the soldiers and priests build in San Saba to accommodate them?

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