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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 does Eddie place on Una's pillow, at the end of Chapter 15, The Jolly Season?

2. What does Mr. Kasher disregard that makes the students like him?

3. What does the author discuss is every boy's dream to own?

4. What runs into Eddie's dad's car?

5. What does the typing teacher do during class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens, at the end of Chapter 14, Late Bloomer?

2. What happens to Tom during his and Eddie's senior year?

3. What happens when a Brother becomes elderly?

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

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

6. How is dating structured, according to Chapter 10, Double Dating with Feliz Lindor?

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

8. Describe Smooth Eddie.

9. Describe what the annual retreat is like.

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

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

Describe the indoctrination of the Catholic Church was during the 1950s and 1960s towards adolescents.

Essay Topic 3

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

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