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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the lights dim, what announcement does "How I Learned to Drive" open with?
(a) An introduction of the characters.
(b) Li'l Bit taking about secrets.
(c) The title of the work.
(d) Safety first - You and Driver Education.

2. What time of day and season is it when the first scene begins?
(a) A stormy winter night.
(b) A warm summer evening.
(c) A windy spring day.
(d) A calm autumn afternoon.

3. What is Peck's favorite car?
(a) '58 Rambler.
(b) '56 Bel Air Sports Coupe.
(c) '60 Corvette.
(d) '55 Bel Air.

4. What happens to Li'l Bit when the Driver's Education film talks about Vehicle Failure?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) She is being molested.
(c) She is sick.
(d) The car she is driving stops working.

5. Where does Peck want Li'l Bit's attention during her driving lesson?
(a) The radio.
(b) The road.
(c) Adjusting the car mirrors.
(d) On him.

6. Li'l Bit refers her first lesson as the "initiation into a boy's first love." What is this first love?
(a) Toys.
(b) Cars.
(c) Sex.
(d) Mothers.

7. Who is Peck married to?
(a) Mother.
(b) Aunt Mary.
(c) We never find out.
(d) He's divorced.

8. What happens with Li'l Bit at school in 1970?
(a) She quits school.
(b) She fails her classes.
(c) She is kicked out.
(d) She makes honor roll.

9. Why does Peck refer to the car as a she?
(a) Because it's beautiful.
(b) Because it responds to his touch.
(c) Because he's controlling it.
(d) Habit.

10. What represents the car in the first scene?
(a) A cardboard cutout that looks like a car.
(b) A car windshield.
(c) Two people standing with knees bent.
(d) Two chairs facing forward.

11. According to Peck, how are women taught to drive?
(a) With aggression.
(b) With daring.
(c) With politeness.
(d) With confidence.

12. What year does the typical family dinner take place?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1972.

13. Who does Peck take fishing?
(a) B.B.
(b) His wife.
(c) Li'l Bit.
(d) Big Papa.

14. In the middle of the Men, Sex, and Women scene, there is a temporary time shift to what year?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1976.

15. What does the night of the first scene make a middle-aged man with a mortgage feel like?
(a) An old man.
(b) A frisky young man.
(c) A country boy.
(d) A kid.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mother, when a lady drinks, she should never get what?

2. Who or what is Li'l Bit's constant companion in her dorm room?

3. What college course does Li'l Bit tell her family about?

4. According to Peck, how are men taught to drive?

5. Grandma calls her husband a big bull. The characters report that he wants sex how often?

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