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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Janine?
(a) A reporter
(b) Miles' soon-to-be-ex-wife
(c) Miles' girlfriend
(d) Tick's Spanish teacher

2. Who meets Miles and his mother when they arrive at their vacation destination?
(a) Father Tom
(b) Mr. Mayne
(c) Tick
(d) Max

3. Where had Cindy taken Miles yesterday after the game?
(a) A coffee shop
(b) The movies
(c) Her apartment
(d) The cemetery

4. Who is Max?
(a) Miles' father
(b) Candice's brother
(c) Tick's boyfriend
(d) Janine's ex-husband

5. What is Miles' mother's job?
(a) Personal assistant to Mrs. Whiting
(b) A waitress at a tavern
(c) A nurse at the hospital
(d) A secretary at the factory

6. What type of childhood did Jimmy Minty have?
(a) Average
(b) Dysfunctional
(c) Storybook
(d) Abusive

7. What has Miles agreed to paint for St. Catherine's Catholic Church?
(a) The steeple
(b) The altar
(c) The statues
(d) The rectory

8. Where do Miles and his mother go on vacation when Miles is nine years old?
(a) Nassau
(b) Kennebunkport
(c) Nantucket
(d) Martha's Vineyard

9. What does Janine end up writing on the napkin?
(a) I heart Walt
(b) The Human Stain
(c) I hate Miles
(d) Janine Roby

10. Which of the following is not a primal urge according to Janine?
(a) Eat
(b) Fuck
(c) Create art
(d) Kill your pain-in-the-ass mother

11. In what type of car does Miles take driving lessons?
(a) Lincoln
(b) Subaru
(c) Ford
(d) VW

12. What does Miles discover from the newspaper photo?
(a) The mill has burned down
(b) C.B. Whiting is the man he knew as Charles Mayne
(c) The people are all dead now
(d) There are no black people in the photo

13. What is Miles doing in the flashback of Part 2, Chapter 14?
(a) Learning to drive
(b) Playing baseball
(c) Going fishing
(d) Selling lemonade

14. What does Tick do when Candace cuts herself with an Exacto knife?
(a) Puts pressure on the wound
(b) Screams
(c) Faints
(d) Calls 911

15. The idea that Miles should be kicked out of driver's education until he learns to drive is _________________.
(a) a metaphor
(b) a simile
(c) an irony
(d) flashback

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does John Voss say he lives?

2. What literary technique does Miles try to help Cindy to understand?

3. Whose image in the newspaper unsettles Miles?

4. What is the event that takes place in Part 3, Chapter 15?

5. How old did Janine think Walter was?

(see the answer keys)

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