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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo, where does Bobby receive his final victory?

2. How many programs of study are at Bremmer High?

3. What high school does Eddie choose to attend?

4. What are the students in the Honor's Program deemed?

5. What does Eddie appear to have with his sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Bippo?

3. Describe Felix Lindor.

4. Describe who runs the St. Bremmer's Catholic School for boys.

5. What does Eddie do because he's jealous of his sister?

6. What happens, at the end of Chapter 7, to Bippo?

7. What motivates Eddie from Principal Brother Purity's address to the student body?

8. What is given to place students in the appropriate course level?

9. What does Eddie witness overnight at the beginning of the book?

10. Describe the lowest rung on the social ladder, according to Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what taking music lessons were a sign of for children during the 1950s and 1960s, according to Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak. Why might music, of all things, symbolize what it did for those children?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the teaching methodologies of St. Bremmer Catholic School for boys while Eddie was in attendance there. How do these methods affect the student's grades?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how dating for a Catholic adolescent boy can be seen as an art form and why.

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