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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 Laura offered to make lunches for Maurice to take to school, what did he ask her?
(a) If she would put them in a brown paper bag.
(b) If he could get McDonald's for lunch every day.
(c) If she would just give him money for the cafeteria instead.
(d) If she would get him a lunchbox to use.

2. Who is the teacher that Laura first met with at Maurice's school?
(a) Miss House.
(b) Miss Rogers.
(c) Miss Jackson.
(d) Miss Ross.

3. Where did Maria Giuseppe Benedetto move her children to a cramped tenement apartment after arriving in New York?
(a) East 36th Street.
(b) 56th Street and Broadway.
(c) West 28th Street.
(d) East 112th Street.

4. By what nickname did Morris call Darcella?
(a) Red.
(b) Junebug.
(c) Darcy.
(d) Juicy.

5. What was the name of Nunziato Carino's father?
(a) Mario.
(b) Pietro.
(c) Francesco.
(d) Stephano.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Laura meet Maurice?

2. When did Laura Schroff first interview with Valerie Salembier?

3. How tall is Grandmother Rose described as being?

4. Where did Laura take Maurice to eat when she first met him?

5. Where is I.S. 131 school located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Laura aspire to be after graduating high school? How did she go about pursuing this dream?

2. Who wrote the book's Foreword? What is this individual's relationship to the author?

3. Why did Laura confront the concierge at her building about Maurice? What happened as a result?

4. Under what circumstances did Laura Schroff first meet Maurice?

5. What happened to make Uncle E unsettled?

6. Who is Snake and how did he know Maurice?

7. Where did Maurice live when he met Laura? How is this setting described?

8. What did Maurice tell Laura that his mother did all day when she first asked?

9. What jobs did Nunziato Carino start out with as a teen? How did his career progress?

10. Who was Stan and what was his relationship to Laura?

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