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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as Henry walks home from school after his teacher keeps him late?
(a) He decides to run away from home
(b) He runs into Edna
(c) He hides from his father
(d) He's hit by a car

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

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

4. What happens within the baseball game with Miranda Bell after several innings with no score?
(a) Henry's team attacked the Miranda Bell team
(b) The Miranda Bell team hits a grand slam homerun
(c) Someone Henry's team hits a homerun
(d) The Miranda Bell team forfeits

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which school does Henry attend?

2. What punishment does Henry get from his father when he brings home the note from the principal?

3. Which of the characters stands up for Henry when a boy tries to beat him up and causes the boy to run away crying?

4. How does Henry's father describe his brothers?

5. What were Katherine and Betsy making when Henry and his family visited?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Henry and Stanley agree upon that happens at school?

2. What does Henry say to his father that is insightful when his father tells him they are traveling the wrong direction and he says that he will leave him behind?

3. What sins does Henry make up when he can't think of anything he's done wrong during confession?

4. What is Henry curious about in regards to Red and how does he satisfy it?

5. What does Henry's father overreact to after Henry completes the assigned lawn chores and what punishment does he give to Henry?

6. What is a common theme among many of the children and adults by this point in the novel?

7. What events transpired which led Henry to be sent to the principal's office?

8. What is odd about the first afternoon that David and Henry walk home from school together?

9. What does Henry talk about in relation to the boys at his grammar school?

10. What does Big Henry say he will do once the doctor tells him that the driver who hit Henry was drunk?

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