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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 does Perry sell at school to the seventh-grade students?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Basketballs.
(c) Trinkets.
(d) Drugs.

2. Marion remembers her mother’s social status as being what?
(a) A Fascist.
(b) A Socialist.
(c) A social leper.
(d) A socialite.

3. What is the name of Russ’s church?
(a) Dearly Beloved.
(b) New Reformation.
(c) Newly Reformed.
(d) New Reformed.

4. What is the profession of Marion’s sister?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Ballerina.
(c) Actress.
(d) Bookkeeper.

5. When Bradley breaks up with Marion, he tells her she was what?
(a) A gigolo.
(b) A homewrecker.
(c) An angel.
(d) A whore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Perry told to do once he is found drunk at the Haefle party?

2. The novel Crossroads begins in what city?

3. Clem defends kids at school who were called what?

4. What does Marion encourage Bradley to write when they are together?

5. What does Laura Dobrinksy call Russ in relation to his ministering?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marion still feel guilty for her father’s suicide?

2. What is the reason Ronnie’s mother becomes so angry with Frances for drawing with her son Ronnie?

3. How does Clem realize Russ is “blackening” Rick Ambrose’s name?

4. What was Frances Cottrell’s marriage like to her husband before he died?

5. Why is Russ upset that Frances calls Ambrose a “genius” for his work with the church teen group Crossroads?

6. Why does Russ refuse to talk to Ambrose after Russ’s humiliation event?

7. Marion always said that Shirley had no use for women, and only wanted men in her life. How does Marion end up being the same way in her own life?

8. What does Sally say to Ambrose, that Russ told her about Russ’s marriage?

9. Why did Perry and other teenagers at the Haefle party sneak and drink the adult vodka mixed drink gløgg?

10. Why does Marion call Shirley’s acting insignificant, by referring to her as a “pretty face who memorized lines”?

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