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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Terrible Temper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author's mother told him if he could _____, he could learn just about anything he wanted to know.
(a) Cook.
(b) Follow directions.
(c) Read.
(d) Do math.

2. Where did the author and his brother stay when his mother went away in Carrying the Load?
(a) With their father.
(b) Home alone.
(c) With neighbors.
(d) With relatives.

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

4. What did the author's mother buy for him that he rejected, saying they were the "wrong kind"?
(a) Pants.
(b) Art supplies.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Pretzels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author describe his father working, until his retirement in the 1970s?

2. In "Eight Years Old," what made the author feel worse than being at the bottom of his class at Higgins Elementary School?

3. What hymn does the author say dissolves his negativity?

4. How did the author hurt a classmate who made him mad in "A Terrible Temper"?

5. What happened halfway through the author's fifth grade year?

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