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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Yale admissions office pay for the author and Candy to do before Thanksgiving 1972?
(a) Register in a marathon.
(b) Buy a house.
(c) Recruit in Detroit area high schools.
(d) Start a religious club on campus.

3. What does the author say he liked to do with his father's hands?
(a) Draw pictures on them.
(b) Smack them.
(c) Read his palm.
(d) Play with the veins.

4. How did the author and his brother often travel to Wilson Junior High?
(a) They hopped trains.
(b) They rode bikes.
(c) They hitchhiked.
(d) They roller skated.

5. What did the author consider his biggest problem in tenth grade?
(a) Thinking about college.
(b) Choosing a career.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Dating.

6. How much education does the author say his mother had when she married?
(a) Tenth grade.
(b) College.
(c) High school.
(d) Third grade.

7. What "wonderful summer job" did the author take after his first year at Yale?
(a) Lab technician at Wayne State University.
(b) Supervisor with a highway crew.
(c) Volunteer at a hospital.
(d) Camp counselor.

8. What does the author say worship services and Bible lessons frequently focused on?
(a) Moses.
(b) Bad parents.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Missionary doctors.

9. At 13, the author changed his goal of becoming a general practitioner to a what?
(a) Oncologist.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Urologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

10. What does the author say his mother brought a sense of to the family?
(a) Security.
(b) Humor.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

11. What does the author say he would do before he let his classmates know they hurt him?
(a) Stand outside in the cold.
(b) Die.
(c) Study.
(d) Cry.

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

13. Why did the author quit his job at Young and Rubicum Advertising?
(a) The job did not pay enough.
(b) He did not get along with his co-workers in the mail room.
(c) The commute was too tiresome.
(d) He lost interest in advertising.

14. What subtle way did the author's mother encourage him in "ROTC Triumph"?
(a) She quoted poems and famous sayings to him.
(b) She left hints around the house about what college she wanted him to attend.
(c) She read to him from the Bible.
(d) She lectured him.

15. In "Changing the Rules," what common interest did the author share with attorney Ward Randall, Jr.?
(a) Classical music.
(b) Science.
(c) Bowling.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author decide to do when he realized he could not control his temper?

2. Who, in "ROTC Triumph," influenced the author to join ROTC?

3. In "A Boy's Big Problem," what does the author say his mother needed in order to provide for the family and keep up the house?

4. What does the author say about regulations in "Changing the Rules"?

5. Who is Curtis?

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