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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Max not allowed in the rectory?
(a) He takes things
(b) He breaks statues
(c) He is not Catholic
(d) He spills drinks

2. What does Miles think David grows at his house?
(a) Marijuana
(b) Green beans
(c) Watermelons
(d) Tomatoes

3. What does Max want Miles to do?
(a) Learn French
(b) Lose some weight
(c) Marry Cindy Whiting
(d) Sell the restaurant

4. Who accompanies Zack to get pizza after the game?
(a) Tick and Miles
(b) Father Tom and John Voss
(c) Tick and John Voss
(d) Tick and Max

5. Where had C.B. Whiting spent several years as an aspiring artist and poet?
(a) Costa Rica
(b) The Bahamas
(c) France
(d) Mexico

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Principal Meyer tell Miles about Tick?

2. What does Janine call Miles?

3. Who is the older priest at St. Catherine's Catholic Church?

4. What did Miles do when he caught Janine in bed with Walt?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is John Voss?

2. Explain how Jimmy Minty is a true product of his environment.

3. Why does Janine call Miles The Human Rut?

4. What inappropriate behavior does Jimmy reveal that makes Miles like him even less?

5. How do you know that Janine is having second thoughts about marrying Walt?

6. Name the three events of Part 3, Chapter 15 which foreshadow coming events for the plot.

7. Explain why the poison ivy is a metaphor in Part 1, Chapter 8.

8. What is the setting for the story?

9. How is Miles' good heart exhibited in the scene with a hungover Buster?

10. What is the role of Timmy, the cat, in the story?

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