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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 time of day and season is it when the first scene begins?
(a) A windy spring day.
(b) A calm autumn afternoon.
(c) A warm summer evening.
(d) A stormy winter night.

2. What year does the typical family dinner take place?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1969.

3. Who or what is Li'l Bit's constant companion in her dorm room?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Canadian V.O.
(d) Rich man's daughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peck take fishing?

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

3. Who is Miss Sponge?

4. Where does Peck want Li'l Bit's attention during her driving lesson?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Peck's special place.

5. 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.

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

7. How does Li'l Bit get her name?

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

9. Who is Li'l Bit's cousin and what is his name?

10. What happens after Peck's surprising declaration to Li'l Bit at the end of the photo shoot?

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