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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What sound cuts off the music in the first scene?
(a) The driver's education film.
(b) The sound of a far away train.
(c) Li'l Bit's voice.
(d) A revving car.

4. In the first scene, what road is less than a mile away?
(a) Highway 20.
(b) Route 66.
(c) U.S. One.
(d) Farm road 142.

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

6. According to Peck, how are men taught to drive?
(a) With careful attention to details.
(b) With speed.
(c) With daring.
(d) With confidence.

7. What college course does Li'l Bit tell her family about?
(a) Sociology of family.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Behavioral psychology.
(d) Biology.

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

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

10. Who says: "Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson"?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Li'l Bit.
(c) Mother.
(d) Peck.

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

12. Where does Li'l Bit receive her first driving lesson at?
(a) The Beltsville Agricultural Farms parking lot.
(b) On rural Maryland roads.
(c) In front of her house.
(d) At her grandparent's house.

13. What is Li'l Bit's mother's name?
(a) The titless wonder.
(b) Lucy.
(c) We never learn it.
(d) Mother.

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

15. According to Mother, when a lady drinks, she should never get what?
(a) Drink like a man.
(b) Gay.
(c) Tipsy.
(d) Sloppy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peck says that Li'l Bit knows the car inside and out in what length of time?

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

3. What play does the following line come from: "The quality of mercy is not strained"?

4. What does Peck recommend for dinner at the fancy restaurant on the Eastern Shore?

5. Which of the Greek chorus speak for Grandmother?

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