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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Li'l Bit begin moving away from the Men, Sex, and Women scene?
(a) When the driver's education voice speaks.
(b) When her mother and grandmother argue.
(c) When the singing starts.
(d) When Big Papa enters the scene.

2. Who or what is Li'l Bit's constant companion in her dorm room?
(a) Rich man's daughter.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Canadian V.O.

3. What state does Peck leave?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Kentucky.

4. Who participates in the scene with three generations at the kitchen table?
(a) Li'l Bit, Peck, Grandfather.
(b) Li'l Bit, Mother, Grandmother.
(c) Li'l Bit, Aunt Mary, Grandmother.
(d) BB, Peck, Grandfather.

5. What does Grandma blame for her crippled shoulders?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Never having a decent bra.
(c) Big Papa.
(d) Old age.

6. How does Li'l Bit hold the steering wheel?
(a) With her knees.
(b) With one hand.
(c) At the eight and two o'clock position.
(d) At the nine and three o'clock position.

7. When Li'l Bit is born, who is able to hold her in an outstretched hand?
(a) Mother.
(b) Big Papa.
(c) Uncle Peck.
(d) Aunt Mary.

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

9. What age is Li'l Bit when she first tells the audience about her family?
(a) 13.
(b) 11.
(c) An adult.
(d) 17.

10. What kind of work does Li'l Bit do when she cannot find it?
(a) She refuses to work.
(b) Working in a liquor store.
(c) Factory jobs.
(d) Racing cars.

11. Li'l Bit asks her mother and grandmother something about sex, but receives conflicting answers. What does she ask?
(a) Whether sex for the first time hurts.
(b) Whether she should have sex.
(c) What age she should be for sex.
(d) Whether they like sex.

12. Li'l Bit becomes embarrassed when family members talk and joke about her breasts. Who tries to change the subject?
(a) B.B.
(b) Aunt Mary.
(c) Mother.
(d) Peck.

13. Where does Peck serve during the war?
(a) In the Pacific Theater.
(b) Stays in the U.S.
(c) In Germany.
(d) In France.

14. Who does Li'l Bit meet on the long bus ride to Upstate New York?
(a) A boy she goes to school with.
(b) A relative that she hasn't seen for some time.
(c) A senior from Walt Whitman High.
(d) An older man who seduces her.

15. What smells does Li'l Bit describe in the first scene?
(a) Fresh country air.
(b) Animals and damp soil.
(c) Clover, hay, and leather dashboard.
(d) Oil and gas from the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. "How I Learned to Drive" can best be described as what type of literary work?

2. What does the night of the first scene make a middle-aged man with a mortgage feel like?

3. What is the name of the county where Peck grows up?

4. Who says that Boy Scouts are horny?

5. How does Li'l Bit describe the God who judges her grandfather when he dies?

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