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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. Who is Raleigh's namesake?
(a) Raleigh "Dizzy" Gillaspie.
(b) Raleigh Smithpeters, the town founder.
(c) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(d) His father.

2. In Part 1, Chapter 12, who is out of prison on parole?
(a) Gates.
(b) Earley.
(c) Stinger.
(d) Striker.

3. Who is skinny-dipping in the community pool in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Aura and Mingo.
(b) Raleigh and Aura.
(c) Vera and Raleigh.
(d) Vera and Mingo.

4. What does Aura protest in Part 1, Chapter 9?
(a) Nixon's impeachment.
(b) War.
(c) The feminest movement.
(d) Homosexual issues.

5. What is Holly doing when Raleigh arrives in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Practicing cheerleading.
(b) Mowing her lawn.
(c) Working on a car with a boy.
(d) Washing her car with her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been Raleigh's friend since childhood?

2. In the beginning of the novel, who is predicted to fall to pieces by the end of the month?

3. Why is Raleigh unnerved when he is stopped by a police officer in Part 1, Chapter 8?

4. Who is Bonnie Ellen?

5. Whose trunk is Raleigh trying to retrieve at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Raleigh steal the bust from the public library?

2. What do the people of Thermopylae think Earley has done, and why?

3. Which three items does Raleigh learn the whereabouts of during his visit with Victoria? Discuss the whereabouts.

4. What is the importance of a cassette tape in Handling Sin?

5. What is Raleigh's relationship with Mingo, as the story begins in Chapter 1?

6. Why is Raleigh pulled over by a police officer on his way home from the public library? Why does he fear he is being pulled over?

7. Discuss Mingo and Vera's weight.

8. During Lovie's party, where does Mingo consider running away to, why, and why doesn't he go?

9. Explain who solves Raleigh and Mingo's car problem after leaving Lovie's party and the payment taken for that solution.

10. How do Raleigh and Mingo encounter a van full of hoodlums, and what happens to the money Raleigh's dad gave him?

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