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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Henry lose when he got through the afternoon fights with the other boys at school?
(a) His teeth
(b) The frustration from living with his father
(c) The need to relieve himself
(d) His homework

2. Why doesn't Henry play with the boys in the neighborhood?
(a) He is afraid of being beaten up
(b) He is forbidden
(c) He spends too much time with them at school
(d) He doesn't like them

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

4. Why didn't Henry open the sealed note from the principal?
(a) Afraid of being beaten
(b) Forgot about the note
(c) No desire
(d) Lost the note

5. What does Henry remember doing when he visited his grandmother?
(a) Staying in the car
(b) Listening to stories from her past
(c) Playing the piano
(d) Cooking with her

6. What does Henry say gives him the courage to fight harder when the bigger boys try to take the football away from him and Red?
(a) Red's courage facing bigger kids
(b) Their howls of pain
(c) Henry's father watching
(d) Desire to get the football back

7. What did people always say that Henry was doing?
(a) Laughing
(b) Drinking
(c) Eating
(d) Sleeping

8. What was the man who gave them a ride arrested for?
(a) Stealing a car
(b) Kidnapping a child
(c) Killing his wife
(d) Performing oral sex on another man

9. Who tells Henry to stop playing the piano?
(a) Henry's father
(b) Henry's grandfather
(c) Henry's grandmother
(d) Henry's mother

10. What do Frank and Henry see that they say won't be able to go to Heaven?
(a) A bum
(b) Cat
(c) Henry's father
(d) Stray dog

11. How did Henry feel about his grammar school teacher?
(a) Respected her
(b) Hated her
(c) Was intrigued by her
(d) Loved her

12. What causes fist fights in the vacant lots among some of Henry's friends?
(a) Drawings
(b) Free food
(c) Basketball games
(d) Weeds that some say are edible

13. What were Katherine and Betsy making when Henry and his family visited?
(a) Peanut butter sandwiches
(b) Chicken sandwiches
(c) Cookies
(d) Muffins

14. What happens within the baseball game with Miranda Bell after several innings with no score?
(a) Henry's team attacked the Miranda Bell team
(b) The Miranda Bell team hits a grand slam homerun
(c) Someone Henry's team hits a homerun
(d) The Miranda Bell team forfeits

15. In what year did Henry's memory take place?
(a) 1922
(b) 1940
(c) 1900
(d) 1910

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Henry go with the class to see the personal appearance by President Hoover?

2. What are the boys doing under the grandstand?

3. Which of the characters stands up for Henry when a boy tries to beat him up and causes the boy to run away crying?

4. Where do Frank and Henry often hitchhike?

5. What was odd about his parents when Henry visited his grandfather?

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