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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 Fulghum is talking about yelling at objects, he claims that even doing this doesn't help.
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Punching.
(c) Hugging.
(d) Kicking.

2. When Fulghum's washer and dryer quit working, where is the laundromat that he has to go to?
(a) In a strip mall by the grocery store.
(b) Beside a local coffee shop.
(c) At the mall.
(d) By the library.

3. 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 kids.
(c) The gummy lump box.
(d) His wife and how hard she works.

4. When Fulghum speaks of the gummy lump, he states that there are three colors of construction paper that are used: pink, red, and what?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Orange.
(c) Purple.
(d) White.

5. How many Xs and Os does Fulghum say are glued to the bottom of the gummy lump box?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Twenty-three.
(d) Forty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What especially does Fulghum say we yell at besides bills and banks and traffic and umpires?

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

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

4. In its larval form, what does the Cassida Rubignosa beetle carry on it's back?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the lady in Chapter 7 as she comes out of her house.

4. 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?

5. What does the lady in Chapter 7 do after she runs into the spider web on her porch?

6. How does Fulghum's lawyer friend whom he mentions in Chapter 12 travel?

7. What does Fulghum think of the way Charles Boyer ended his life?

8. Describe what the gummy lump box looks like.

9. What does Fulghum think we learn from the song "The Eensy-Weensy Spider"?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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