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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. Who is Eddie's guidance counselor?

2. What stage is Eddie and Una's relationship in, during Chapter 15, The Jolly Season?

3. Who does Eddie plan go to the sock hop with?

4. What are most lay teachers working on?

5. What is Eddie's attitude during graduation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eddie's whereabouts, in Chapter 16, Final.

2. Why do two couples end up in the police station, at the end of Chapter 10, Chapter 10, Double Dating with Feliz Lindor?

3. Describe Brother Sens.

4. What happens, at the end of Chapter 15, The Jolly Season?

5. Describe dating for the Catholic adolescent boys in the 1950s or 1960s.

6. How does the reader feel about Eddie's future at the end of Do Black Patent-leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

7. What is the primary focus of religion class in Catholic school.

8. Describe Smooth Eddie.

9. Why is Eddie in an unhappy mood, in Chapter 15, The Jolly Season?

10. What does Brother O'Connell tell Eddie, in Chapter 14, Late Bloomer?

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

Compare and contrast the Eddie at the start of Do Black Patent-leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? with the Eddies at the end. How has he become more cynical and mature in thought, by Chapter 16, Final?

Essay Topic 3

Explain what Una represents to every adolescent boy. How is Eddie and Una's relationship the epitome of high school romance?

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