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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Bippo argue with and punch out, in Chapter 7, Bippo?
(a) Another team's player.
(b) The coach.
(c) The other team's coach.
(d) The homecoming queen.

2. When does Eddie witness the horrors of being a teenager?
(a) One week.
(b) Overnight.
(c) When he turns 15.
(d) While he is 14.

3. What makes Eddie saddened by his task, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) He loved playing it.
(b) He loved listening to his sister play it.
(c) That the piano was once cherished by someone who is now in a nursing home.
(d) He would miss it occupying its place on the wall.

4. What do adults always hold special in their hearts, according to Chapter 8, Una?
(a) Their first kiss.
(b) Their first love.
(c) Their first dance.
(d) Their first date.

5. Who else, besides the student body, deems the bottom rung guys as lowly?
(a) The priest.
(b) Faculty.
(c) The girls.
(d) Their parents.

6. What is deemed a mark of maturity in children, according to Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) Music lessons.
(b) Singing.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Gymnastics.

7. What are mixers?
(a) A party for adults.
(b) A drink.
(c) Something used in the kitchen.
(d) Friday night social events held in church basements or school gyms.

8. What does Eddie do daily as he enters high school?
(a) Shaves.
(b) Showers morning and night.
(c) Drinks a protein shake.
(d) His 'pimple patrol.'

9. How does wearing make-up cause God to feel, according to Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?
(a) Pleased.
(b) Enabled.
(c) Displeased.
(d) Discomforted.

10. In what region is Eddie's high school located?
(a) Southside Chicago.
(b) East Memphis.
(c) Westside Chicago.
(d) West Memphis.

11. What does the family spend much of its time doing in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) Looking for a piano teacher.
(b) Looking for a used piano.
(c) Looking for a cat.
(d) Looking for a dog.

12. What does the Catholic Church give to both girls and boys, in Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?
(a) Strict dating guidelines.
(b) Restrictions on behavior.
(c) An allowance.
(d) Curfews.

13. Who begins to play the piano, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Eddie's sister.
(c) Eddie's mom.
(d) Eddie's dad.

14. What is given to the students that enables the school to place them in their appropriate levels?
(a) An entrance exam.
(b) A research paper.
(c) A writing assignment.
(d) An exit exam.

15. Who is Dolores Crosley?
(a) A girl with no personality but good looks.
(b) A very religious girl.
(c) An ugly girl.
(d) A very smart girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things do adolescent boys constantly think only?

2. What is the ultimate goal of adolescent dances, according to Chapter 6, Mixers?

3. Why does Eddie begin to think the Catholic Church is sexist?

4. What does the vignette, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak, speak to?

5. What looms large in the religion's section of "don'ts"?

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