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

2. Why does Peck refer to the car as a she?
(a) Habit.
(b) Because it's beautiful.
(c) Because it responds to his touch.
(d) Because he's controlling it.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action causes Li'l Bit to comment on Peck's dexterity?

2. What does Grandma blame for her crippled shoulders?

3. What is Li'l Bit's mother's name?

4. What happens when the Greek chorus unfreezes after the argument as the mother and grandmother?

5. What is the Li'l Bit's family eating at the family dinner scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Li'l Bit describe herself as cynical in 1969?

2. How is Li'l Bit doing in college?

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

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

5. How does Big Papa describe his choice of Grandma for a bride.

6. What gives the 35 year old Li'l Bit comfort and a feeling of freedom?

7. How does Aunt Mary view her niece?

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

9. In the summer of 1962, Li'l Bit is trying to talk her mother into something. What is it?

10. Sum up "A Mother's Guide to Social Drinking".

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