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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. How many of last year's graduates from Welton Academy went on to Ivy League schools?
(a) 55 percent.
(b) 84 percent.
(c) 91 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

2. How is the Academy Honor Room decorated?
(a) Oak paneling.
(b) Ancient wallpaper.
(c) Yellow plaster.
(d) White plaster.

3. What is the year in Chapter 1?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1957.

4. What does the candle mean that is carried at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Light of learning.
(b) Light of knowledge.
(c) Academic excellence.
(d) Freedom to learn.

5. Who wrote "O Captain! My Captain!"?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Abraham LIncoln.
(c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Welton Academy located?

2. What subject does Dr. Hager teach the juniors?

3. How many boys carry banners at the beginning of Chapter1?

4. In Chapter 5, who does the gym master say needs to lose some weight?

5. In Chapter 3, what subject does Charlie want to study in his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Keating do after he has Neil read the introduction of "Understanding Poetry"?

2. What does Neil's father inform him at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. How does Knox get to the Danburry's home?

4. What do Neil, Charlie, and Knox's parents want their sons to do for careers?

5. Why does a teacher tell the boys to slow down at the beginning of Chapter 2?

6. What does Neil learn about Mr. Keating from Keating's senior annual?

7. Why does Mr. Keating take the junior boys to the Honor Room on the first day of classes?

8. How do various parents say good-bye to their sons?

9. In Chapter 7, what does Keating when he pops his head back into the classroom?

10. What do the boys begin to do in Chapter 7 as Pits reads?

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