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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Hector forgotten?
(a) Why he picked up all the trash.
(b) Why his parents wanted him to go to college.
(c) Why he began taking guitar lessons.
(d) Why he thought Meadow is attractive.

2. What are Debbie and Patty doing as they look at the yearbook?
(a) Decide who is going to be successful.
(b) Create Haiku stories about the seniors.
(c) Decide who they would like to marry.
(d) Decide who will be going to the prom with whom.

3. What has brought the worms out on the sidewalk?
(a) The search for food.
(b) The heat of summer.
(c) A torrential downpour.
(d) A light rain.

4. Why is Hector upset?
(a) That Debbie and Patty are at the ice cream place.
(b) That his invitation to Meadow is taken up by the entire class.
(c) That Meadow tells him she is not interested in dating him.
(d) That Dan muscles in on Hector's conversation with Meadow.

5. What does Mrs. Bruning give Debbie?
(a) Her old family Bible.
(b) A picture of Peter.
(c) Extra pay for working on the house.
(d) An old family necklace.

6. What were the two conversation subjects Hector asked Debbie about while sitting on the curb?
(a) Movies one has not seen and what one dreamed the night before.
(b) The lack of education in schools and the problems with playing baseball in the rain.
(c) Television series and science fiction books.
(d) Teenage crime and how parents should act with their children.

7. What part of the festival will Debbie be able to attend even with her job?
(a) The Maypole Dance.
(b) The lighting of the soltice candles.
(c) The annual jump into the lake summer first swim.
(d) The dinner and fireworks.

8. For what does Peter volunteer at his grandmother's house?
(a) To move her furniture around.
(b) To take his grandmother to the store.
(c) To stay and fix problems in the house.
(d) To clean it from top to bottom.

9. What kind of food is Hector holding when Dan sees him?
(a) Elephant ears.
(b) Popcorn.
(c) Hot dogs.
(d) Cotton candy.

10. Where is the hospital relation to Mrs. Bruning's house?
(a) It is four blocks away.
(b) About three miles.
(c) Two towns away.
(d) The nearest hospital is in a large city about 127 miles away.

11. How does Hector think of the people who step on the worms on the sidewalk?
(a) They are all too heavy for the worms.
(b) They are sadistic.
(c) They are uncaring and indifferent.
(d) They are careless.

12. What does Debbie see Lenny doing in his backyard?
(a) Swimming in the pool.
(b) Working on his bike.
(c) Mowing the lawn.
(d) Raking leaves.

13. What are mementos of her mother's that Debbie finds?
(a) A pressed lei of flowers.
(b) Cat pictures.
(c) Dog figurines.
(d) Two high school year books.

14. Where are Debbie's mother's mementos?
(a) In the basement.
(b) In the closet in boxes.
(c) In a box under her mother's bed.
(d) In the attic.

15. Why does Lenny leave his backyard when Debbie is watching him?
(a) For a drink of water.
(b) To find his father.
(c) To answer the phone.
(d) He is being chased by wasps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picks up what falls out of Russell's pocket?

2. Why is Peter at his grandmother's house?

3. Who has a locker next to Debbie?

4. What does Debbie give Mrs. Bruning when the elderly woman comes downstairs on Saturday?

5. What is Lenny doing with his father in Chapter 16:

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