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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What percent academic scholarship does the author say he received for college?
(a) 90%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 50%.

3. In "A Serious Step," who helped the author get a summer job at Sennet Steel?
(a) A classmate
(b) His mother.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Candy.

4. When does the author say he worked at Wayne State University in one of the biology laboratories?
(a) During spring break of his sophomore year at Yale.
(b) The summer between his junior and senior year of high school.
(c) The year after he graduated from college.
(d) The summer after his freshman year at Yale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?

2. Where did the author and his brother stay when his mother went away in Carrying the Load?

3. Who does the author say was the "earliest, strongest, and most impacting force" in his life?

4. How old was the author's mother when she married his father?

5. What does Mother tell the author his father had done?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author learn about the arts in "ROTC Triumph"?

2. Why was the author impressed in the ROTC by a student named Sharper?

3. How did new glasses help the author in school?

4. How did being poor impact the author in "A Boy's Big Problem"?

5. What was the final event that led the author to break down and find determination to resolve his temper?

6. How was the author's new neighborhood in "Eight Years Old" different from his old one?

7. How does the author make his college choice in "College Choices"?

8. How did Mr. Jaeck nurture the author's gift for science?

9. In "Two Positives," why did the author say he stopped hopping trains?

10. What experience at college helped the author wash away some of his cockiness?

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