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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 goes with Raleigh and Mingo to Lovie's house?
(a) Vera.
(b) Gates.
(c) Aura.
(d) Victoria.
2. Where do Raleigh and Mingo spend the night after hoodlums rob them in the rain?
(a) In a nice hotel.
(b) In a ratty hotel.
(c) In a convent.
(d) In a hospital.
3. Who is Victoria Hayes?
(a) Jubal's sister.
(b) Raleigh's favorite aunt.
(c) Raleigh's mother.
(d) Raleigh's wife.
4. Whose slacks get ripped in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Mingo's.
(b) Raleigh's.
(c) Vera's.
(d) Aura's.
5. What does Mingo do in Part 1, Chapter 7 that he has never before done?
(a) Goes down a playground slide.
(b) Climbs to the top of playground monkey bars.
(c) Jumps from a playground swing.
(d) Eats a corndog from a street vendor at the playground.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose trunk is Raleigh trying to retrieve at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?
2. In the beginning of the novel, who is predicted to fall to pieces by the end of the month?
3. What does Raleigh steal from the library in Part 1, Chapter 7?
4. Who has been Raleigh's friend since childhood?
5. Who is supposed to have the trumpet that Raleigh needs to retrieve?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Raleigh go to visit Flonnie? What does he buy her, and why?
2. Explain Raleigh's message of doom in Chapter 1.
3. During Lovie's party, where does Mingo consider running away to, why, and why doesn't he go?
4. Explain how Raleigh ends up with a second pistol belonging to Mingo.
5. 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?
6. Who is Jimmy Clay, and what role does he have in explaining Earley's disappearance after leaving the hospital?
7. What note does Raleigh find in Chapter 5, and what is the truth of the situation surrounding that note?
8. What does Raleigh toss out of his car when he is stopped by a police officer, and what irony surrounds the situation?
9. What specific instructions does Raleigh's father give him regarding Gates, and why?
10. Who and what does Raleigh's father want him to gather to bring to him in another state?
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