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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 does Grandma think is something that her daughters make up?
(a) G force.
(b) Rhythm method.
(c) The Easter bunny.
(d) Orgasm.

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

3. Where is the location of the first setting?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) New York.

4. Who does Big Papa vote for?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) George McGovern.

5. Who is sixteen before realizing that pedophilia does not mean people who like to ride bicycles?
(a) Li'l Bit.
(b) Mother.
(c) Big Papa.
(d) Peck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the suggested music when Peck molests Li'l Bit in the first scene?

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

3. What does Peck say that he lives all week for?

4. Li'l Bit refers her first lesson as the "initiation into a boy's first love." What is this first love?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peck pantomime in the first scene?

2. Why does Li'l Bit not want to be called by that name any longer in the family dinner scene?

3. At age 11, can Li'l Bit actually drive?

4. How do Peck and Li'l Bit define Peck being good?

5. How does Peck position Li'l Bit for her first driving lesson?

6. What does Li'l Bit have to say about why she is kicked out of school in 1970?

7. What are Li'l Bit's conditions for the weekly meeting with her uncle?

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

9. 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.

10. Describe Peck's special place.

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