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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. How do Frank and Henry get to the airshow?
(a) Walking
(b) Bus
(c) Train
(d) Hitchhike

2. What do Frank and Henry sell to the Jewish ladies who sit on the benches at the beach?
(a) Stones
(b) Home-made muffins
(c) Fish
(d) Sea shells

3. Where does Henry's father drive when the picnic basket was empty one day?
(a) Grandmother's house
(b) Grocery store
(c) Home
(d) Orange grove

4. When is Henry first exposed to other children?
(a) As a toddler playing with the neighbor children
(b) When his mother starts babysitting
(c) Kindergarten
(d) Preschool

5. What happens after Big Henry is confronted by his wife and Edna in his own house?
(a) He runs down the street
(b) He moves out
(c) He argues with his wife
(d) He beats up Henry

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes fist fights in the vacant lots among some of Henry's friends?

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

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

4. What does Henry remember doing when he visited his grandmother?

5. Why didn't Henry open the sealed note from the principal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After Henry learns about sex from one of his friends, what does he say repulses him about the idea of sex?

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

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

6. What happens at the pool that causes Red to move away from Henry without a word of goodbye?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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