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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?
(a) He said he would only do it until he got some better clothes.
(b) He said it was not his fault there were ugly people at school.
(c) He said that everyone did it, and it was the only way to survive.
(d) He said he thought his father would approve.

2. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His backpack.
(c) His pencil.
(d) His shirt.

3. Why did the author change schools in the middle of eighth grade?
(a) He got expelled from his old school.
(b) He moved back to his old house.
(c) He transferred to a school for gifted children.
(d) He moved back to Boston.

4. What does the author believe, even after losing Jennifer, about his relationship to patients?
(a) He believes he will cry whenever he loses a patient.
(b) He thinks it is fine to be emotionally attached.
(c) He feels he is a father figure to his patients.
(d) He believes nurses should break bad news to parents for him.

5. Which of Candy's three college majors does the author say she eventually dropped?
(a) English.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Premed.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Candy's family think was strange about her new church in "A Serious Step"?

3. In "A Serious Step," what happened to cause the author's car to spin out of control near Youngstown, Ohio?

4. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?

5. What college group was Candy involved in that amazed the author?

(see the answer key)

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