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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Jimmy and Henry get to the beach?
(a) The bike 15 miles to the beach
(b) They take the bus 15 miles to the beach
(c) They hitchhike 15 miles to the beach
(d) They walk 15 miles to the beach

2. Why doesn't Henry go to the doctor anymore?
(a) Big Henry won't let Henry go to the doctor's anymore
(b) Doctors will not treat him any longer
(c) Henry refuses to go to the doctor again
(d) Big Henry doesn't believe in paying doctors

3. What is in the box that Henry's grandmother gave to him?
(a) Small scrolls
(b) The answers to all of his problems
(c) Salve
(d) Crucifix

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

5. Which of the following things isn't Lilly allowed to do during biology class?
(a) Talk with her classmates
(b) Sing
(c) Use textbook on exams
(d) Dance

6. Why does Henry say that he was selected for the job at Mears-Starbuck?
(a) He seems to be willing to stay with the job
(b) Someone that had the job before him died
(c) He's old
(d) He's pathetic

7. What does Henry awaken to see?
(a) Two dark eyes peering at him
(b) His grandmother praying over him
(c) The small box that his grandmother gave him
(d) Two faces staring at him

8. After he loses the fight, what does the coach tell the boys to do?
(a) Stop ganging up on him
(b) To get off campus
(c) Put out their cigarettes
(d) Never return to gym class

9. How does Henry's father feel about the fact that Henry broke Abe's arm?
(a) Ashamed
(b) Proud
(c) Disgusted
(d) Envious

10. Which of the following students commits suicide?
(a) Arnie Whitechapel
(b) Lilly Fischman
(c) Richard Waite
(d) Harry Walden

11. Why does Henry's father send him to Chelsey?
(a) Neighbor children go there
(b) Better school
(c) Has an ROTC program
(d) Further away from home

12. How do the boys in shop class learn to rebuild engines?
(a) Watching movies
(b) By watching the teacher do it
(c) They don't ever learn
(d) Doing it themselves

13. What new job does Henry's father get?
(a) None, just the imaginary job
(b) Delivery man
(c) ROTC instructor
(d) Security guard

14. Which character does Coach Wagoner challenge to a fight?
(a) Morris Moscowitz
(b) Harry Walden
(c) Henry
(d) Arnie Whitechapel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry have to do to work off demerits?

2. How many phone numbers did Jimmy get from girlus at the beach?

3. What does Big Henry want Henry to be?

4. Who gives Henry the finger on graduation day?

5. What happened to Jimmy's father?

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