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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. What is given to the students that enables the school to place them in their appropriate levels?

2. What level is just below the Honor's Program?

3. Who does Bippo get into a fight with one day after school, in Chapter 7, Bippo?

4. Who comprises the second highest rung clique?

5. When does Eddie witness the horrors of being a teenager?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the dress code at Bremmer High School.

3. Describe the athletes, according to Chapter 4, The Beautiful World of Richard Bobbo.

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

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

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

7. What are publics?

8. What does Bobbo decide it is time for and why?

9. Who is Dolores Crosley?

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

Compare and contrast the Brothers and teachers at St. Bremmer to Mr. Kascher or Smooth Eddie. Why is Smooth Eddie the most popular among the student body?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and describe how Eddie lives in the short term at the beginning of the book and what that means to his current stage in life.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the definition of a "good" student in the 1950s and 1960s to the definition of a "good" student is in present day.

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