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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 does Henry say gives him the courage to fight harder when the bigger boys try to take the football away from him and Red?
(a) Desire to get the football back
(b) Red's courage facing bigger kids
(c) Henry's father watching
(d) Their howls of pain

2. What did Henry find odd about his grammar school teacher?
(a) She had two different colored eyes.
(b) She only spoke to the girls in the class.
(c) She couldn't speak English.
(d) She never went to the bathroom.

3. What did Henry's grandfather give to him?
(a) Gummy badge
(b) Rifle
(c) Wrist watch
(d) Uniform

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

5. Which of the following characters is cross-eyed?
(a) Stanley
(b) David
(c) Henry
(d) Lila Jane

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following homophones did Henry's father use in a joke?

2. What grade is Henry in when David moves away?

3. What does Henry's mother give to Anna and her family?

4. What direction does Henry tell his father that they are traveling when asked?

5. What are the boys doing under the grandstand?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Frank moves away with his mother what does he send back to Henry that they continue to exchange for awhile?

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

4. Why do Henry and Frank make a break and run away from the man who picked them up and drove them to the air show?

5. How can the reader infer that Aunt Anna and her family need money to buy food?

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

7. Why wouldn't Big Henry allow Henry's mother to give Aunt Anna money when they obviously needed some to buy food?

8. Why did Henry become obsessed with bathroom practices in kindergarten?

9. Though Big Henry and Katherine have been married for a number of years, what new information did Katherine learn about her husband?

10. Describe the relationship between Lila Jean and Henry and the things they do together.

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