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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Henry's father drive when the picnic basket was empty one day?
(a) Home
(b) Grocery store
(c) Orange grove
(d) Grandmother's house

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

3. 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.
(a) Inhuman
(b) Sadistic
(c) Fierce
(d) Spiteful

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

5. What occupation does Henry tell his new teacher that his father has?
(a) Dentist
(b) Unemployed
(c) President
(d) Milk delivery truck driver

6. What does Henry do which makes Chuck, Eddie, Frank and Gene upset with him for a few weeks?
(a) Steals their football
(b) Refuses to go to church
(c) Kicks the spider web
(d) Kicked the dog

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

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

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

10. What do Frank and Henry continue to exchange after Frank moves away?
(a) Toys
(b) Letters
(c) Stories
(d) Drawings

11. What does Henry do when he hears his father beating his mother after the confrontation?
(a) Goes to her defense
(b) Slips out of the window
(c) Hits his father over the head
(d) Takes his car and leaves

12. Where does Big Henry say he will move after he sues the driver that hit Henry?
(a) Bermuda
(b) Aruba
(c) South Seas
(d) South America

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

14. Where is Katherine's brother?
(a) Pasadena
(b) Japan
(c) Germany
(d) Los Angelos

15. How do Frank and Henry get to the airshow?
(a) Bus
(b) Hitchhike
(c) Train
(d) Walking

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Frank's father?

2. What is Henry's mother's reaction to the note from the principal?

3. How does Henry says boys from his school take their beatings?

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

5. Why didn't Henry open the sealed note from the principal?

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