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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. What play does the following line come from: "The quality of mercy is not strained"?
(a) Merchant of Venice.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Much Ado About Nothing.
(d) Taming of the Shrew.

2. How does Li'l Bit describe the God who judges her grandfather when he dies?
(a) Beautiful black woman in a long white robe.
(b) Fat man who no sense of humor.
(c) Angry white woman in a long black robe.
(d) Small Asian woman reading a book.

3. What type of car do Li'l Bit and Peck sit in during the first scene?
(a) Oldsmobile Cutlass.
(b) Ford Mustang.
(c) Cadillac El Dorado.
(d) Buick Riviera.

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

5. Who is taking Li'l Bit to the prom?
(a) Greg.
(b) Claude.
(c) No one; she's not going to prom.
(d) Peck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma think is something that her daughters make up?

2. According to Peck, how are women taught to drive?

3. Peck encouraged Li'l Bit to have a drink. What does she order?

4. What sound cuts off the music in the first scene?

5. Where does Li'l Bit and Peck have a celebration dinner at in 1968?

Short Essay Questions

1. During the hotel room scene, what does Li'l Bit do with the champagne?

2. Why is the mother concerned about her 11 year old daughter?

3. How does Peck describe his childhood while fishing with Bobby?

4. Who is looking in at the sock hop, but not seen by the students?

5. Why are there only chairs used as props in "How I Learned to Drive"?

6. What trick does Jerome play on Li'l Bit?

7. What is Li'l Bit's plan to keep Peck from drinking?

8. What purpose does the Greek Chorus serve in "How I Learned to Drive"?

9. Describe how Li'l Bit's family comes up with nicknames.

10. During the 1966 scene titled "The Anthropology of the Female Body in Ninth Grade", an occasional beeping is heard only by the reader and by Li'l Bit. What is the beeping.

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