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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jake tell Copeland's guests he wants to do?
(a) Take the boys around, and tell people what happened and why.
(b) Take the boys to the state capitol, and tell the governor what happened.
(c) Take the boys to a special hospital in Texas to get help.
(d) All the answers are correct.

2. What happens after the Jake and Dr. Copeland talked most the night?
(a) They realize they both enjoy reading the same books.
(b) They both are hungry and thirsty.
(c) They realize they agreed on many things, but not on how to accomplish them.
(d) They realize they were hopelessly opposite in their views.

3. What does Mick suggest she and Harry do before they return to the meal?
(a) Dive in the water.
(b) Build a raft.
(c) Swim naked.
(d) Swing from a rope.

4. What does Mr. Singer do when he returns to his home from the asylum?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He shoots himself.
(c) He slits his wrists.
(d) He cries.

5. What does Mr. Singer buy his four guests for Christmas?
(a) A radio.
(b) A chess game.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A fruit basket.

6. What religion does Harry tell Mick he was?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Pantheist.

7. What does Jake observe happening around the Sunny Dixie?
(a) Fights, anger, and even a murder.
(b) Children can't afford tickets.
(c) Gangs are hanging out there.
(d) Simms is getting drunk there.

8. Who does Biff watch for when he goes back to work in Part 2, Chapter 8?
(a) Alice.
(b) Mick Kelly.
(c) Baby.
(d) Lucille.

9. What changes about Mr. Singer after he learns the news at the asylum?
(a) He changes from mild-mannered to irritable and cold.
(b) He leaves everything behind and goes home.
(c) He can't stop crying.
(d) He picks a fight with the staff at the asylum.

10. Who starts the problem that Jake Blount is running away from?
(a) All the answers are correct.
(b) His boss, who tried to close early.
(c) A black boy and a white boy.
(d) The police, who were shutting down the place.

11. How do Harry and Mick get the the Girl Scout camp?
(a) They walk.
(b) The bus.
(c) Harry borrows his mother's car.
(d) They ride a bicycle.

12. When Mick thinks about the last month, what two things can't she believe?
(a) That she was alone and unhappy.
(b) That school was starting soon and she was working.
(c) That Mr. Singer was dead and she was grown and working at Woolworth's.
(d) That Mr. Singer had committed suicide and that she had found him.

13. Who does Dr. Copeland decide he needs to talk to about his son?
(a) Mr. Singer.
(b) The superior court judge.
(c) The pharmacist, Marshall Nicolls.
(d) His other sons.

14. Why is Dr. Copeland put into jail?
(a) He fought back..
(b) He doesn't listen when he is told to go home.
(c) He doesn't go to jail.
(d) They think he is drunk, not sick, when he passes out.

15. Why is Mr. Singer on the train?
(a) He is going to visit his friend Antonapoulos.
(b) He is going to the Gulf on vacation.
(c) He is looking for a new home.
(d) He is going to visit his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jake going to go after leaving town?

2. What happens to the music in Mick's mind after all the changes she undergoes during the past month?

3. What does Mick dream of being when she is twenty?

4. What did Mr. Singer find out when he gets to the asylum?

5. Why is Jake Blount running in the opening of Part 3, Chapter 2?

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