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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 chore does Henry's father give him to keep him out of one of the Saturday football games?
(a) Lawn work
(b) Delivering milk
(c) Cleaning the house
(d) Doing extra homework

2. Why doesn't Henry play with the boys in the neighborhood?
(a) He spends too much time with them at school
(b) He is forbidden
(c) He doesn't like them
(d) He is afraid of being beaten up

3. What do Frank and Henry see that they say won't be able to go to Heaven?
(a) Stray dog
(b) Cat
(c) Henry's father
(d) A bum

4. What did people always say that Henry was doing?
(a) Laughing
(b) Drinking
(c) Eating
(d) Sleeping

5. Who tells Henry to stop playing the piano?
(a) Henry's grandmother
(b) Henry's father
(c) Henry's mother
(d) Henry's grandfather

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Frank and Henry often hitchhike?

2. What did Henry find odd about his grammar school teacher?

3. Why does Henry say he dislikes the music David plays?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry's new teacher do with Henry's essay about the personal appearance of President Hoover?

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

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

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

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

6. What intrigues the group of boys about the spider and how is it ruined for them?

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

8. What happens when Henry's father drives to an orange grove to pick oranges?

9. 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?

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

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