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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 is the last present opened on Christmas Day in Chapter 2?
(a) A box with tinker toys inside.
(b) A box with a BB gun inside.
(c) A box with a bowling ball inside.
(d) A box with some socks inside.

2. When does Ralph first consider himself a man?
(a) After his first blind date.
(b) When he got his first job.
(c) When he received a BB gun.
(d) During the fishing trip with his father.

3. How does Ralph describe "the rest of us?"
(a) Everyone that is not in a secret membership club.
(b) Everyone in a secret membership club.
(c) The kids who know the radio show theme songs.
(d) Everyone but the Official People.

4. What is the "special kid thing" at the World's Fair?
(a) Fort Bragg.
(b) Magic Mountain.
(c) Fort Sheridan.
(d) Treasure Island.

5. What club does Ralph so badly want to join?
(a) The Little Orphan Annie Secret Circle.
(b) The Red Ryder Rangers.
(c) Flick's Tavern Crew.
(d) Grover Dill's Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who breaks the "major award"?

2. What was the "major award"?

3. What was the magazine of choice for young boys during Ralph and Flick's childhood?

4. What is the name of Ralph's father throughout the book?

5. Ralph thinks there are several moments in a person's life when:

Short Essay Questions

1. Give one example of how the Great Depression affected the Parker family?

2. How is "the Graham" damaged?

3. Describe the Used-Car Nut.

4. What does the reader learn about the main character in the opening chapter?

5. What are the three most important things to a Midwesterner?

6. Why was the World's Fair so important to Ralph?

7. How does Wilbur "win" in the final parade performance?

8. Why does Ralph become the real butt of the joke instead of getting in trouble for retelling the dirty joke?

9. What is the significance of the blind date story?

10. Explain Ralph's theory of Official People.

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