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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. When the opposing tribe showed up in San Saba to fight the soldiers, what color of war paint did they wear?
(a) Black.
(b) Red and black.
(c) Red.
(d) Red, black, and yellow.

2. What do the little white hearts taste like that are on the gummy lump box?
(a) Tums.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Chalk.
(d) Salt.

3. In Fulghum's list of rules in the first chapter, he says you should wash your hands before doing what?
(a) Playing a game.
(b) Eating.
(c) Feeding the hungry.
(d) Drinking your milk.

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

5. When Fulghum's neighbor starts screaming because of the spider web, Fulghum thinks she sounds like what kind of mating animal?
(a) A seagull.
(b) A cat.
(c) A stork.
(d) A raccoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the woodsmen in the Solomon Islands continue their ritual for one tree?

2. At the end of Chapter 10, Fulghum asks a question about something not being easy. What is he talking about?

3. After Charles Boyer's wife died in his arms, Charles died two days later. How did Charles die?

4. Fulghum thinks it would be a better world if we all had cookies and milk at what time?

5. Fulghum says that no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world it is best to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, why did the soldiers and priests set out for a spot on the San Saba River?

2. What is the purpose of the larval form of the Cassida Rubignosa carrying a small sack of garbage on its back?

3. What are some things that Fulghum says he yells at?

4. When Fulghum is reading the historical marker in the town square in San Saba in Chapter 6, what do a pair of elderly gentlemen tell him?

5. What happened after Fulghum's washer died on him in the middle of a load of laundry?

6. What does Fulghum claim a detergent for people would clean?

7. What were some of the reasons that Fulghum gives for visiting the town of San Saba?

8. What are some things that Fulghum enjoys about doing laundry?

9. When Fulghum was younger what was his list or credo like?

10. In Chapter 13, Fulghum talks about introducing his godchild to the good things in life. What are some of those things that Fulghum says he'll introduce to his godchild?

(see the answer keys)

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