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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Terrible Temper," the author realized that if people could make him _____, they could ______.
(a) Study/Help him become a doctor.
(b) Angry/Control him.
(c) Pray/Help him control his temper.
(d) Successful/Find their own success.

2. What did Aubrey Tompkins suggest when Candy's audition at the church did not work out?
(a) That she sing in the choir.
(b) That she keep practicing.
(c) That she try harder next time.
(d) That she go home.

3. What gift does the author say has been an invaluable asset as a surgeon?
(a) His physical coordination.
(b) His ability to attract friends.
(c) His aptitude for math.
(d) His ability to see in three dimensions.

4. What type of work did the author's mother find in Boston?
(a) Secretarial work.
(b) Domestic work.
(c) Factory work.
(d) Restaurant work.

5. What rule did the author's mother set for his television watching?
(a) He could watch three programs a week.
(b) He could only watch television on Saturdays.
(c) He could watch television when he finished his homework.
(d) He was no longer allowed to watch television.

6. What did the author discover when he began to read Proverbs?
(a) A chapter about a doctor who was a great healer.
(b) The language of the Bible made him even more angry.
(c) He did not understand the Bible.
(d) A string of verses about angry people.

7. What did Candy's family think was strange about her new church in "A Serious Step"?
(a) It forbade the drinking of alcohol.
(b) It met on Saturday.
(c) It offered weekly Bible classes.
(d) It embraced classical music.

8. Why did the author withdraw his applications to medical school programs at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Michigan State, and Wayne State?
(a) He decided to take a year off to get married.
(b) He realized he applied to too many programs.
(c) He received a fellowship to study abroad.
(d) He was accepted to the University of Michigan.

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

10. What did the author's mother consistently ask him about, no matter how tired she was?
(a) Church.
(b) School.
(c) Friends.
(d) Chores.

11. What damage did the author do with a rock in "A Terrible Temper"?
(a) He smashed a window of a business in town.
(b) He broke a neighborhood kid's glasses and smashed his nose.
(c) He broke his brother's model airplane.
(d) He hit his mother with it.

12. What did "The Top One Hundred" program help the author learn?
(a) Science facts.
(b) Classical music.
(c) Italian.
(d) Leadership skills.

13. What was the author offered, after he had dinner with Congressional Medal winners?
(a) A limo ride with General Westmoreland.
(b) A trip to the White House.
(c) A book about Vietnam.
(d) A scholarship to West Point.

14. Why was the author surprised when he read the exam problems in the booklet, in "College Choices"?
(a) He thought the problems were much easier than he expected.
(b) He had no idea how to solve the problems.
(c) They were identical to the ones he saw in a dream.
(d) The booklet included formulas that would help him solve the problems.

15. What did the author decide to do when he realized he could not control his temper?
(a) Pray.
(b) Talk to his mother.
(c) Pretend nothing happened.
(d) Get counseling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What person does the author say came, when his mother "needed someone to care"?

2. What was the author's mother determined to accomplish in Detroit?

3. What does the author say was his one complaint about his mother?

4. What was the reason the author and his classmates were given for having to retake a test for the psychology class, Perceptions 101?

5. The author told his mother that _____ are supposed to _____.

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