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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. Why did Henry's family come to America?
(a) To avoid prison for his father.
(b) It is not explained.
(c) To live near his relatives who had already moved to America.
(d) To escape debts in Germany.

2. With which of the following characters is Big Henry having an affair?
(a) Edna
(b) Red
(c) Susan
(d) Lila

3. How did the baseball game with Miranda Bell end?
(a) In a fight
(b) Henry's team loses
(c) Miranda Bell team winning
(d) A tie game

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

5. What sport do Red and Henry play together?
(a) Soccer
(b) Football
(c) Kickball
(d) Baseball

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Henry feel about his grammar school teacher?

2. Who tells Henry to stop playing the piano?

3. Where do Henry and Red go together occasionally?

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

5. Which of the following characters begins sitting next to Henry at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why won't Big Henry's dream of moving to the South Seas and never working again be realized?

10. How does Henry begin to be included with the neighborhood boys?

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