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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. How does Eddie feel about his task, in Chapter 5, My Sister was a Piano Freak?

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

3. How many blocks away does Una live from Eddie?

4. What do the upperclassmen at Bremmer High relish?

5. What happens to Eddie and Una's relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eddie feel about destroying the piano?

2. What is the worst insult a boy could get at Bremmer?

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

4. What does Una represent for most adolescent boys?

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

6. What are publics?

7. What are mixers?

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

9. Why and how is the Catholic Church sexist, according to Chapter 3, Catholic Girls?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Bobbo gains his victory among the fat and ugly clique and what prompts his defiance and desire for payback against the highest rung on the social ladder at St. Bremmer's.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how describing typical teenage events brings out the theme of adolescent maturation, so adults can witness it through the content of Powers' book.

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