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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 many of the latest kind of animal on the construction site were let loose?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

2. What type of accent did Kalo have?
(a) German.
(b) Texan.
(c) Australian.
(d) Spanish.

3. What was the weather like at the end of Chapter Six?
(a) It is a thunder and lightning storm.
(b) It is a beautiful Spring evening.
(c) It is a windstorm.
(d) Extremely hot and muggy.

4. Why did Dana stop hitting Roy on the bus in Chapter Eight?
(a) The bus driver pulled the boys apart.
(b) Roy hit him back harder.
(c) Beatrice sat next to Dana.
(d) Roy blacked out.

5. Who had Roy’s bike at the end of Chapter Six?
(a) Dana.
(b) Officer Delinko.
(c) The barefoot boy.
(d) Beatrice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roy have to write as part of his punishment for fighting?

2. What was Dana Matherson doing to Roy on the Bus in Chapter One?

3. What was the barefoot boy’s nickname?

4. What type of class did Roy’s mother normally take before work?

5. What did the inside of the truck Beatrice took Roy to smell like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What back-story is revealed about the barefoot runner in Chapter Ten?

2. How does humor used with the introduction of Kimberly Lou Dixon to readers?

3. What lie did Beatrice tell Roy’s mother in Chapter Ten, and why did she pick that lie?

4. What evidence is there for Roy and Beatrice’s relationship beginning to change in Chapter Eight?

5. What happened at the construction site in Chapter Nine to let readers know that the vandal is the barefoot boy?

6. What did Roy feel was his ‘duty as an only child’ and what does this tell readers about Roy?

7. What evidence has been shown in the novel so far that Roy tends to internalize issues and blame himself – even when it’s clearly not his fault?

8. What is the memory of Montana Roy has in Chapter Five?

9. How is the girl who talks to Roy in the cafeteria in Chapter Two presented, and what does this suggest?

10. Who is Kimberly Lou Dixon?

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