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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry say that his father does wherever they are?
(a) Get drunk
(b) Talk too much
(c) Eat too much food
(d) Create scenes

2. Why does the principal send a note home to Henry's parents?
(a) Because he never uses the bathroom in school
(b) Because Henry wants to play on the regular baseball team
(c) Because he gets into a fight with Billy Sherril
(d) Because he witnessed David being beaten

3. What does Henry tell the principal?
(a) I'll kill you
(b) I'll get you
(c) Leave me alone
(d) I hate you

4. How did the baseball game with Miranda Bell end?
(a) A tie game
(b) Miranda Bell team winning
(c) In a fight
(d) Henry's team loses

5. Which of the characters stands up for Henry when a boy tries to beat him up and causes the boy to run away crying?
(a) David
(b) Delsey
(c) Lila Jane
(d) Stanley

6. What does Henry become obsessed with in Kindergarten?
(a) His teacher
(b) Bathroom practices
(c) Math facts
(d) Writing his letters

7. What direction does Henry tell his father that they are traveling when asked?
(a) South
(b) North
(c) East
(d) West

8. Which of the following characters begins sitting next to Henry at school?
(a) David
(b) Stanley
(c) Delsey
(d) Lila

9. What does Henry's mother give to Anna and her family?
(a) Peanut butter
(b) Food
(c) Blankets
(d) Money

10. What did Henry find odd about his grammar school teacher?
(a) She couldn't speak English.
(b) She had two different colored eyes.
(c) She never went to the bathroom.
(d) She only spoke to the girls in the class.

11. Where did Henry's grandmother live?
(a) Pasadena
(b) Los Angelos
(c) San Francisco
(d) Germany

12. What are the boys doing under the grandstand?
(a) Smoking
(b) Drinking
(c) Looking up a woman's skirt
(d) Gambling

13. Why does Henry decide he can't run away?
(a) He won't be able to find a job
(b) His mother would miss him
(c) He couldn't live on his own
(d) His father needs him

14. Why did Henry's family come to America?
(a) To live near his relatives who had already moved to America.
(b) To avoid prison for his father.
(c) It is not explained.
(d) To escape debts in Germany.

15. What sport does Henry imagine that he is great at playing?
(a) Soccer
(b) Basketball
(c) Football
(d) Baseball

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people always say that Henry was doing?

2. What chore does Henry's father give him to keep him out of one of the Saturday football games?

3. What does Henry do when he hears his father beating his mother after the confrontation?

4. Where does Henry's father drive when the picnic basket was empty one day?

5. What did Henry's grandfather give to him?

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