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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles's friends from home earn money by smuggling what substance in from the Yucatan before selling it?
(a) Psychedelic mushrooms.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Opium.
(d) Cocaine.

2. Who owns a small cabin in Inverness, California?
(a) Vicki.
(b) David.
(c) Nic.
(d) Karen.

3. How does Nic get out of jail the first time he is arrested?
(a) His charges are dismissed.
(b) He escapes.
(c) David bails him out.
(d) He serves his sentence.

4. David asserts that he and Vicki are "among the first generation of" (19) what kind of parents?
(a) Secular.
(b) Parochial.
(c) Self-conscious.
(d) Progressive.

5. When Nic misses his curfew for the first time after moving back home, for how long does he stay away?
(a) 4. days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 1 week.

6. With whom did David first try crystal methamphetamine?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Vicki.
(c) Charles.
(d) Nic.

7. What is NOT something listed among the things Vicki and David divide upon their divorce?
(a) Their art.
(b) Their young son.
(c) Their china.
(d) Their German shepherd.

8. At what age does Nic start traveling back and forth between his two homes unaccompanied by an adult?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

9. From what country was the chemist who first synthesized amphetamine?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Austria.
(d) Switzerland.

10. What is the name of the girl with whom Nic is enamored in sixth grade?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Skye.
(d) Alabama.

11. A child development specialist tells David that the greatest changes take place in children's brains before they are how old and then again when they are teenagers?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

12. David notes that "tests of marijuana have shown that there is twice as much THC in the average joint or pipeful today than in the weed of" (51) how long ago?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) A score.
(c) A decade.
(d) Two years.

13. In what year does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1979.

14. Nic's school is located on the campus of a former what?
(a) Oil refinery.
(b) Military academy.
(c) University.
(d) Prison.

15. To what city does Vicki move when she leaves the Bay Area?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Redding.
(c) New York City.
(d) Sacramento.

Short Answer Questions

1. When David picks Nic up after he has been missing for the first time, he tells Nic that Nic must now go to rehab and that there is no other choice. What is Nic's response?

2. David relates that Charles died on the eve of what day?

3. Nic's teachers report that Nic is bright and usually engaged, but that once in a while, he seems what?

4. Whom does David quote as saying, "Home is a holy thing" (67)?

5. David describes hearing "cacophonous music like a" ( ) during his first time using crystal methamphetamine?

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