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

2. 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 broke his brother's model airplane.
(c) He hit his mother with it.
(d) He smashed a window of a business in town.

3. What college group was Candy involved in that amazed the author?
(a) An underground newspaper.
(b) Honor Society.
(c) Yale Symphony and Bach Society.
(d) Yale Repertory Theatre.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the author offered, after he had dinner with Congressional Medal winners?

2. What year does the author say he no longer waited for his father to come home from work?

3. In "College Choices," why did the author want to be alone after his "miracle" exam?

4. At the start of "Goodbye, Daddy," who told the author that his father was moving out of the family home?

5. Why does the author say he felt the stigma of being poor more acutely?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the plan the author's mother devised to help him improve his grades.

2. Describe capping.

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

4. How does the author explain, in "College Choices" the miracle he experiences on a class exam?

5. What are the reasons the author gives in "A Serious Step" for not being ready for love?

6. How did the author's mother mask her mental problems?

7. What lessons does the author learn from working at Ford Motor Company?

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

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

10. Why did a photographer from the Yale Daily News take a picture of the author in "Changing the Rules"?

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