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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frankie not attend school?
(a) He skips school whenever he can.
(b) His mother does not see the need for school.
(c) He is not very bright.
(d) Frankie would rather work.

2. What is the name of Dora's current watchman?
(a) Alfred
(b) Lee
(c) William
(d) Wes

3. Why does Mack awaken the boys early?
(a) To get ready for Doc's party.
(b) To help Guy work on Lee's truck.
(c) To go dumpster diving.
(d) To hitchhike to La Jolla.

4. How much rent money comes in to Lee?
(a) $0
(b) $1500
(c) $750
(d) $50

5. What does Frankie enjoy doing at Doc's?
(a) Eating lunch with Doc
(b) Watching and listening to Doc's parties
(c) Feeding the fish
(d) Organizing the marine specimens

6. What does Doc do for Frankie?
(a) Feeds him and sends him back home
(b) Sends him back to school
(c) Adopts him
(d) Cleans him, rids him of lice and clothes him

7. Who has given Mack and his boys the ability to survive?
(a) Art father who are in heaven
(b) Howard be thy name
(c) The father of all nations
(d) Our father who art in nature

8. What does Lee's soft heart inspire him to do?
(a) Adopt a foster child
(b) Donate to a homeless shelter
(c) Have his father exhumed and buried in sacred Chinese soil
(d) Become a Big Brother to a young boy

9. Which one of the boys has the mechanical ability to work on Lee's car?
(a) Mack
(b) Guy
(c) Hazel
(d) Eddie

10. What becomes the hearth and center of the Palace?
(a) A burn barrel
(b) A hot plate
(c) A huge stove
(d) A chiminea

11. What are the ingredients of Eddie's special punch?
(a) rum and Hawaiian Punch
(b) vodka and orange juice
(c) tequila and lime juice
(d) the remains of liquids in patrons' glasses

12. What happens after the conclusion of the deal?
(a) The answer to #4 goes to the bar.
(b) The answser to #4 takes his wife to dinner.
(c) The answer to #4 shoots himself.
(d) The answer to #4 pays his creditors.

13. What happens to the boiler?
(a) A couple named the Malloys move into it as a safe apartment.
(b) It is sold for scrap metal.
(c) It is melted down.
(d) It is repurposed for other cannery departments.

14. As a result of his generosity and sympathy, people want to ________________________.
(a) do nice things for Doc
(b) donate time to Doc
(c) give money to Doc
(d) take Doc out to dinner

15. How long does it take eleven-year-old Frankie to enter Doc's lab and speak to Doc?
(a) Three days
(b) Three months
(c) Three years
(d) Three weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the hours of Lee's business?

2. Why do Mack and the boys have to avoid the police?

3. What is the nature of the deal?

4. Why does Guy not use his mechanical abilities on the machines in the canneries?

5. What do the boys do while Eddie is out stealing a new carburetor?

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