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

2. What does Eddie purchase, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?
(a) A trumpet.
(b) A harmonica.
(c) A drum.
(d) A tambourine.

3. How does Eddie transform himself from Chapter 6, Mixers to Chapter 8, Una?
(a) By progressing towards a real relationship.
(b) He finds someone he finds both attractive and can converse with.
(c) He changes his focus from playing with his friends to girls.
(d) He doesn't.

4. What does Eddie realize about Una, in Chapter 8, Una?
(a) She was one-of-a-kind.
(b) They were bad for each other.
(c) He loved her.
(d) She was annoying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the filth fiend have more than other boys at school?

2. Which grammar school does Eddie attend?

3. What are the teachers and faculty at Bremmer High School comprised of?

4. What does the Catholic Church give to both girls and boys, in Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?

5. What are women prohibited from being in the Catholic Church during the 1950s and 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the safest type of dating, according to the Catholic Church in the 1950s and 1960s.

2. Describe Felix Lindor.

3. Describe the transformation in Eddie, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak.

4. Discuss the dress code at Bremmer High School.

5. How does Eddie feel about destroying the piano?

6. Discuss what Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo describes.

7. Describe Eddie's grades after his first few months at Bremmer.

8. What does the vignette of Eddie and his sister suggest?

9. Discuss the indoctrination of the Catholic Church in the 950s and 1960s.

10. Who is Dolores Crosley?

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