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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Heartbreak.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say was an embarrassing and painful experience at Hunter Junior High?
(a) Learning about General Custer.
(b) Capping.
(c) Gym class.
(d) Eating lunch.

2. What year of college was the author in when he met Candy?
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Senior.
(c) Freshman.
(d) Junior.

3. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Tutor his friends.
(b) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.
(c) Work at a gas station.
(d) Play basketball.

4. In "A Serious Step," who helped the author get a summer job at Sennet Steel?
(a) A stranger.
(b) A classmate
(c) Candy.
(d) His mother.

5. How much blood did Maranda lose during the hemispherectomy?
(a) None.
(b) Nine pints.
(c) Twelve ounces.
(d) Two pints.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?

2. Why did the author withdraw his applications to medical school programs at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Michigan State, and Wayne State?

3. In "A Boy's Big Problem," why does the author say he hated to buy bread or milk at the store?

4. What was Candy Rustin's real name in "A Serious Step"?

5. What did the author consider his biggest problem in tenth grade?

(see the answer key)

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