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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Red use to help win fights with bigger boys?
(a) A baseball bat
(b) The football
(c) His teeth
(d) His fake arm

2. Where is Big Henry's brother?
(a) Hospital
(b) Cemetary
(c) Sanitarium
(d) Germany

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

4. With which of the following characters is Big Henry having an affair?
(a) Edna
(b) Red
(c) Susan
(d) Lila

5. What sport do Red and Henry play together?
(a) Football
(b) Soccer
(c) Kickball
(d) Baseball

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

7. With whom does Henry spend most of his free time?
(a) Stanley
(b) Himself
(c) David
(d) Lila Jane

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

9. Why doesn't Henry go with the class to see the personal appearance by President Hoover?
(a) He doesn't care about the president
(b) He has to work on the lawn
(c) He thinks he won't have to write the essay if he doesn't go
(d) His father would not approve

10. Why does Henry dislike David?
(a) David hits Henry often
(b) Because he dislikes all other students
(c) David makes fun of Henry's father
(d) Solely on appearance

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

12. What does David share with Henry?
(a) Books
(b) Money
(c) Clothes
(d) Potato chips

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

14. What does Edna do when Big Henry refuses to choose?
(a) Attacks Big Henry's wife and then leaves
(b) Takes Big Henry's car and leaves
(c) Beats on Big Henry and the leaves
(d) Beats on Henry and then leaves

15. What term does Henry use to describe sperm?
(a) Love juice
(b) Dong juice
(c) Fucking liquid
(d) Man juice

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Henry's first memory?

2. How did Henry's mother catch his father with Edna?

3. Why did Henry's family come to America?

4. What does Mr. Knox ask Henry?

5. What does the term vicious mean as it is used in the following sentence: Henry knows the players will be sending vicious kicks his way.

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