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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 has Hector decided to do to enhance his image as a musician?
(a) Wear black clothes.
(b) Write songs about every teen he knows.
(c) Carry his guitar with him at all times.
(d) Grow his hair.

2. About what is the song Hector composes at the celebration?
(a) Girls being from Venus.
(b) The smell of fireworks.
(c) Hitting the cold water of the lake on a hot day.
(d) Pulling petals from daisies.

3. What might disintegrate Patty's world?
(a) Her grandmother dying.
(b) All the moving atoms to suddenly move differently.
(c) Her parents divorcing.
(d) Her science teacher retiring before Patty's senior year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main course of the dinner Peter's grandmother made for him and his parents?

2. Where are Debbie and Patty when Hector and others arrive?

3. What drops out of Russell's jacket pocket?

4. Why does Lenny leave his backyard when Debbie is watching him?

5. How does Hector think of the people who step on the worms on the sidewalk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter call his grandmother and why is he at her house?

2. What does Debbie think of Dan Persik?

3. What subject does Peter's father approach with Mrs. Bruning and what is her response?

4. What has Debbie convinced her mother of, and what does she find in her mother's mementos box?

5. With what is Lenny helping his father in Chapter 16, and what is Debbie doing when she overhears them?

6. What is Peter's father's response to Mrs. Bruning's objections? How are his objections handled?

7. What does Hector do while waiting for the fireworks?

8. What are Debbie and Patty doing while looking at the yearbook and what is Debbie thinking about when she looks at her own picture in the yearbook?

9. What book is Debbie reading in Chapter 22 and what does she think about the book and her life compared to the life of the protagonist in the book?

10. How does Debbie's necklace end up in a tar patch after Dan picked it up?

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