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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Frank's father?
(a) Commits suicide
(b) Killed by a drunk driver
(c) Abandons his son and wife
(d) Killed by his wife

3. What happens to Henry in confession?
(a) He can't think of anything so he makes sins up
(b) He eavesdrops on Frank's confession
(c) He is banned from the church
(d) He refuses to say anything

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

5. What does Henry's father do for a living?
(a) Delivers newspapers
(b) Nothing, he is unemployed
(c) Runs a dairy farm
(d) Has a milk route

6. What does Mr. Knox ask Henry?
(a) If he is mean
(b) If his parents beat him
(c) If he likes girls
(d) If he is tough

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

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

9. 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 help him get away from his parents
(c) If she will tell his parents
(d) What it means to have sex

10. Where does Frank's father's give the boys money to visit?
(a) Air show
(b) Airport
(c) Hanger
(d) Air plane graveyard

11. How does Henry's father describe his brothers?
(a) Crazy
(b) Alcoholics
(c) Religious zealots
(d) Do gooders

12. Where do Frank and Henry often hitchhike?
(a) Church
(b) Airport
(c) Movie set
(d) Hospital

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

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

15. Which school does Henry attend?
(a) Marmount
(b) Delsey
(c) L. B Jane
(d) Knoxville

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Big Henry's brother?

3. What do Frank and Henry sell to the Jewish ladies who sit on the benches at the beach?

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

5. Which of the following characters is called Red and has a fake arm?

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