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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 mandatory for students to attend in all Catholic schools?

2. What does Eddie not tell his family?

3. What does Eddie look at as he reflects his years at high school?

4. Which teachers are always young and badly paid, according to Chapter 9, Among Others, Smooth Eddie.

5. What usually involves time to get a Catholic girl to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eddie perceive his graduation ceremony?

2. What is addressed, in Chapter 9, Among Others, Smooth Eddie?

3. What happens to Timmy in his final tumbling routine?

4. What does one brother suggest for his students to do if they think of sin?

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

6. Describe Brother Sens.

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

8. How does Eddie buy his first car?

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

10. What happens when a Brother becomes elderly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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