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

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

3. Why does Henry ask his teacher when she keeps him after class the day after he learns what sex is?
(a) If she will tell his parents
(b) If she wants to have sex
(c) If she will help him get away from his parents
(d) What it means to have sex

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

5. What punishment does Henry get from his father when he brings home the note from the principal?
(a) Beating with a razor strop
(b) Whipping with a branch
(c) Beating with a wooden spoon
(d) Whipping with a belt

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What occupation does Henry tell his new teacher that his father has?

3. How does Henry says boys from his school take their beatings?

4. What chore does Henry's father give him to keep him out of one of the Saturday football games?

5. What would Henry lose when he got through the afternoon fights with the other boys at school?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Henry feel after the beating from his father and what actions does he take?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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