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

2. Li'l Bit's cousin's nickname is what?
(a) B.B.
(b) Big Bobby.
(c) Bubba.
(d) R.R.

3. What does the parking lot overlook?
(a) The Beltsville Agricultural Farms.
(b) Peck's home.
(c) Li'l Bit's school.
(d) The Department of Agriculture office.

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

5. What are Peck and Li'l Bit celebrating at the special 1968 dinner?
(a) Her first job.
(b) Getting a scholarship to college.
(c) Graduating from high school.
(d) Getting her driver's license.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Peck married to?

5. According to the mother, a married woman only needs a broom or a rolling pin. What does she prefer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Peck's theory of "fire" and people.

2. Describe Big Papa.

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

4. Describe the waiter's response to Peck in the restaurant in 1968.

5. Grandma marries Big Papa as a child bride at age fourteen. What does she still believe in?

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

7. What does Peck pantomime in the first scene?

8. How does the character of Li'l Bit introduce the first scene?

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

10. Describe Greg, the boy who asks Li'l Bit to dance.

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