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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 Tom's garage called?
(a) The Incubator.
(b) Kustom Kollision.
(c) Cars R Us.
(d) Tom's Garage.

2. What does Mawmaw sarcastically complain that she neglected to bring on the trip that she wishes she had if she were going to sleep in the same hotel room with Emmett?
(a) Her running shoes.
(b) Her good housecoat.
(c) Her brown wig.
(d) Her golden slippers.

3. Whose death was more real to Sam than the death of her father when she was a child?
(a) Martin Luther King's.
(b) Kennedy's.
(c) Colonel Blake's.
(d) John Lennon's.

4. Hopewell doesn't have a mall, but it has a shopping center between Penney's and this place where Sam meets dawn.
(a) K Mart.
(b) Wal-Mart.
(c) Macy's.
(d) Nordstrom.

5. Who does Sam say a satellite dish on the back of a truck she and her passengers see on the highway belongs to?
(a) The president.
(b) Big Brother.
(c) John Galt.
(d) Chevy Chase.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Emmett going to work on in the house after the foundation is fixed?

2. When is Lonnie's brother getting married?

3. What has Emmett put on his face that doesn't help his skin condition?

4. What aspect of Sam's house seems like some repressed life that wanted to emerge?

5. Emmett's ability to become absorbed in thought over mundane things makes him good at what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sam and Dawn have in common concerning their living arrangements?

2. Why does Hopewell have Flag Days?

3. Why does Sam think America could have won the Vietnam War if the enemy understood English?

4. What is the excuse Sam thinks to herself that might keep her from going to Lonnie's brother's wedding?

5. Why doesn't Lonnie want to be an electrician?

6. Why doesn't Emmett take the job he is offered at the cookie factory?

7. Describe the section of town where Tom has his garage.

8. How does Sam think society has changed towards women becomeing pregnant out of wedlock?

9. How does Anita describe the police officer she is dating from Benton?

10. What does Dawn tell her when Sam tells her Lonnie is going to a stag party?

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