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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Russell do the weekend before his reexamination?
(a) He goes on a bender with his friends.
(b) He shuts himself in his room to study.
(c) He proposes to Karen.
(d) He quits the Navy.

2. How does Uncle Harold die?
(a) He dies in a car accident.
(b) He dies in the hospital of lung cancer.
(c) He dies in a hunting accident.
(d) He dies in the hospital after a series of heart attacks.

3. What does Lucy call his new love?
(a) A ladybird.
(b) A cafe trotter.
(c) A know it all.
(d) A smooth operator.

4. What bully beats Russell up at his new school in Baltimore?
(a) Fernando.
(b) George.
(c) Pete.
(d) Billy.

5. After his hangover subsides, how does Russell feel?
(a) Completely calm.
(b) Seriously ill.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Confused.

6. How long does it take for Joe Louis to defeat Max Schmeling?
(a) Two minutes and nine seconds.
(b) Thirty seconds.
(c) Three hours, ten minutes, thirteen seconds.
(d) Ten minutes and twenty seconds.

7. What color is Russell's new suit?
(a) It is black with black buttons.
(b) It is gray with white stripes.
(c) It is red with purple buttons.
(d) It is green with gray stripes.

8. What must Russell sometimes walk past in the downstairs parlor?
(a) The landlord's dog.
(b) The basement door.
(c) The library.
(d) Dead bodies.

9. With what military branch did Uncle Harold serve?
(a) The Coast Guard.
(b) The Army.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Navy.

10. What attack shocks Russell in 1941?
(a) The bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) Germany's invasion of Poland.
(c) The bombing of Nagasaki.
(d) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

11. What girl does Russell idolize on his paper route?
(a) Karen.
(b) Mimi.
(c) Audrey.
(d) Laraine.

12. For what does Russell apply in hopes of going to college?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Loans.
(c) The army.
(d) Scholarship.

13. With whom has Doris sometimes stayed during the summers?
(a) With Uncle Miller and Aunt Edmonia.
(b) With Aunt Goldie and Uncle Tom.
(c) WIth Ida Rebecca.
(d) With Aunt Sister and Uncle Harold.

14. With which instructor does Russell take the reexamination?
(a) Herb.
(b) "Total Loss" Smith.
(c) The Yellow Peril.
(d) Jim.

15. Of what religious persuasion is the matron at the orphanage?
(a) The Church of Latter-Day Saints.
(b) Fundamentalist Protestant.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Lapsed Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food is the family taking home?

2. What does Russell learn to love about Uncle Harold?

3. At what time of year were the orphanages shuttled from party to party, expected to be grateful?

4. What is the first Civil Rights movement Russell sees in his life?

5. What orphanage was Mimi raised in?

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