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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Henry take his father's binoculars?
(a) To look up his neighbor's dress
(b) To spy on his father and mother
(c) To make his father mad
(d) To use them in school to get better grades

2. Why does Abe make all A grades?
(a) His father beats him if he gets less than an A
(b) He will do anything to get a better life and job
(c) He is naturally smart and easily gets As
(d) His mother makes him study all the time

3. What does a typical day in Henry's imagination of his 'good life' look like?
(a) Work, come home alone, drink himself to sleep
(b) Work, eat, sleep
(c) Lay around all day, sleep
(d) Work, come home, have sex, go to sleep

4. In what type of competition does Henry make the finals?
(a) Math
(b) Science
(c) Writing
(d) ROTC

5. Who does Pete say took Lilly Fischman's virginity?
(a) Arnie
(b) Her father
(c) Henry
(d) Harry

6. What does one of the boys tell Henry happens to him each time he brings home an F?
(a) Makes him beg for a retest
(b) Has to sleep outside
(c) Beats him with a razor strap
(d) Pulls out a fingernail

7. What does Big Henry become obsessed with and talk incessantly about?
(a) Henry's acne
(b) The war
(c) The ROTC
(d) His job

8. What do the doctor's say that Henry has?
(a) Simple Acne and boils
(b) Boil Vulgaris
(c) Acne vulgaris
(d) Vulagis acne and boils

9. Why does Henry say that most of the guys joined ROTC?
(a) They like it
(b) They have to to graduate
(c) They hate gym class
(d) Parents make them

10. What does Jimmy do to the family dog at his girlfriend's house?
(a) Rubs it until it ejaculates
(b) Beats the dog
(c) Feeds the dog a poisonous bone
(d) Pees in its water dish

11. How many demerits do Baldy and Henry get when Wagoner sees them keeping watch for Lilly and Pete?
(a) 1000
(b) 10
(c) 10000
(d) 100

12. Why does Henry put out a lot of job applications?
(a) He doesn't want to live at home
(b) He needs money
(c) He wants to find a job with his friends
(d) He is forced to by Big Henry

13. What happened to Jimmy's father?
(a) Went into the military
(b) Left to be with another woman
(c) Committed suicide
(d) Moved to another state to practice medicine

14. In which class do all of the boys have a crush on the teacher?
(a) Social Studies
(b) Math
(c) Science
(d) English

15. What happens to Henry when his father insists he keeps the salve on much longer than is recommended?
(a) He screams in extreme pain
(b) He is burned
(c) He gets more boils
(d) His skin begins to fall off

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following students commits suicide?

2. Which of the following descriptions does Henry make about the boys at his Jr. High School?

3. What do the doctors expose Henry to in hopes of treating the acne and boils?

4. How does Henry's father feel about the fact that Henry broke Abe's arm?

5. How do the boys in shop class learn to rebuild engines?

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