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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 color of Mercedes does Fulghum claim feels like him?
(a) Crisp white.
(b) Onyx black.
(c) Dark blue.
(d) Silver gray.
2. The man who has a car with a dead battery says he took another class the same time as his auto mechanics class. What class does he say he took at the same time as his mechanics class?
(a) Home economics.
(b) Sex education.
(c) P.E.
(d) Math.
3. What two things did Beethoven want to be?
(a) A virtuoso pianist and a singer.
(b) A singer and violinist.
(c) A violinist and virtuoso pianist.
(d) A painter and a singer.
4. When Fulghum buys a cuckoo clock he missed reading that it was made where?
(a) South Korea.
(b) Germany.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Columbia.
5. Fulghum states that he has heightened respect for what goes on in the nooks and crannies of our rooms and claims that it isn't dirt that is located there, it's what?
(a) Plant cells.
(b) Cosmic compost.
(c) Animal sheddings.
(d) People dust.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Fulghum's uncle who drives the old pickup truck in Chapter 17?
2. What is the name of the band that plays in the tavern that Fulghum talks about in Chapter 35?
3. What does Fulghum claim is a blow to his self-image in Chapter 34?
4. In Chapter 19, what does Fulghum catch his neighbor spraying in his yard?
5. In Chapter 29, Fulghum mentions his neighbors across the street who really have it together. What does he say the couple eats or "scarfs"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Fulghum explain how the people of imagination mentioned in Chapter 37 stand on one another's shoulders?
2. In Chapter 31, what does Fulghum state he'll do on some December night when he is very rich?
3. In Chapter 40, what happens when V.P. Menon arrives in Delhi to seek a job in government?
4. How does Fulghum think people's attitude would be different if dandelions were rare and fragile?
5. Describe Larry Walters' contraption that Fulghum mentions in Chapter 38 and what he has with him as he floats over Los Angeles.
6. What happened in Chapter 24 when Fulghum tries to organize a game of giants, wizards, and dwarfs?
7. What does the author do in Chapter 28 when his cuckoo clock is not working properly, and what happens to the clock?
8. In Chapter 20, what kind of people does Fulghum say he lives in awe of?
9. In Chapter 28, why does Robert Fulghum buy a cuckoo clock?
10. In Chapter 33, what does Fulghum say is his first clue that Elias Schwartz is the new Haiho Lama?
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