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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Henry's first memory?
(a) Being under something
(b) Being squashed
(c) Being in the crib
(d) Being beside his mother

2. 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

3. Where does Henry kiss Lila Jane and grab her behind?
(a) Lila Jane's house
(b) School
(c) Vacant lot
(d) Henry's parents' bedroom

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

5. What did Henry's grandfather give to him?
(a) Wrist watch
(b) Gummy badge
(c) Rifle
(d) Uniform

6. Why does Henry ask his teacher when she keeps him after class the day after he learns what sex is?
(a) If she wants to have sex
(b) If she will tell his parents
(c) If she will help him get away from his parents
(d) What it means to have sex

7. Why does the doctor say that Big Henry should not blame Henry for the car accident?
(a) The car malfunctioned
(b) The driver was drunk
(c) The driver swerved to miss an animal and hit Henry instead
(d) Henry was inside a building when it happened

8. What does Henry's father do when he arrives at the hospital?
(a) Cheers that he won't have to care for Henry any longer
(b) Blames Henry for getting in trouble at school and thus getting hit by a car
(c) Yells at the doctor for treating Henry
(d) Berates Henry for getting hit by a car

9. How did Henry's mother catch his father with Edna?
(a) Watched him sneak into her house when she was running errands
(b) Saw them in his delivery truck
(c) Saw them through a window
(d) Hid in the trunk of the car

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

11. Which of the following homophones did Henry's father use in a joke?
(a) Carrot and caret
(b) Flower and flour
(c) Pee and pea
(d) Bear and bare

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

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

14. What would Henry's father use to show him magic tricks?
(a) Coins
(b) Poker chips
(c) Cigarettes
(d) Toys

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry remember doing when he visited his grandmother?

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

3. With which of the following characters is Big Henry having an affair?

4. What does Henry tell the principal?

5. What was the man who gave them a ride arrested for?

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