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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the author's mother determined to accomplish in Detroit?
(a) To go to night school.
(b) To enroll her sons in private school.
(c) To reclaim the house the family once lived in.
(d) To get back together with her ex-husband.

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

4. Who was Alma Whittley?
(a) The author's chemistry professor.
(b) A supervisor at Wayne State University.
(c) A counselor at the author's high school.
(d) The author's cousin.

5. What did the author, in "College Choices," score on his final chemistry exam?
(a) 97.
(b) 79.
(c) 48.
(d) 100.

6. 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 backpack.
(b) His pencil.
(c) His shoes.
(d) His shirt.

7. At times, the author says, his mother's refusal to settle for less came across as _____, _____, even _____ to him.
(a) Motherly/Grandmotherly/Fatherly.
(b) Nagging/Demanding/Heartless.
(c) Devotion/Inspiration/Selfless.
(d) Tenacious/Obnoxious/Ambitious.

8. Who took the author's family in once they arrived in a new city?
(a) His grandparents.
(b) Some friends of the family.
(c) His aunt and uncle.
(d) His father.

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

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

11. What does the author say he examined under the magnified lenses in Mr. Jaeck's class?
(a) Blades of grass.
(b) Skin cells.
(c) Blood.
(d) Protozoa from water samples.

12. What person does the author say came, when his mother "needed someone to care"?
(a) Bobby Farmer.
(b) His father.
(c) Mary Thomas.
(d) Curtis.

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

14. What influential adult in "ROTC Triumph" told the author to "always put first things first"?
(a) Mr. McCotter.
(b) Mrs. Miller.
(c) Sgt. Bandy.
(d) Mr. Doakes.

15. What does the author say in "Two Positives" was the worst part of school?
(a) Weekly spelling bees.
(b) Math quizzes.
(c) Recess.
(d) Book reports.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subtle way did the author's mother encourage him in "ROTC Triumph"?

2. How old was the author when he learned that his father was leaving?

3. What holiday does the author recall made being 8-years-old the best year of his childhood?

4. What rule did the author's mother set for his television watching?

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

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