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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 does Sam plan to do with her car to make it look mean?
(a) Put gold rims on it.
(b) Take the door handles off.
(c) Paint it black.
(d) Cut a hole in the roof.

2. What does Emmett say that science can't explain?
(a) Why a cat purrs.
(b) Why zebras have stripes.
(c) Why some people have two different colored eyes.
(d) Where man came from.

3. What did Pete Simms' wife bring for food to the dance?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Potato chips and dip.
(c) A cheese log.
(d) A brisket.

4. What was Irene's gift to Sam for graduation?
(a) A gold cross necklace.
(b) A credit card.
(c) The Collegiate Dictionary.
(d) A new car.

5. When Lonnie asks Emmett where birds sleep, what does he say?
(a) In bird beds.
(b) In nests.
(c) Birds don't sleep.
(d) In flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sam imagine bellowing out rock songs at the enemy?

2. Who does Martha work with at the beauty shop that thinks Emmett is cute as a bug's ear?

3. To whom does Emmett explain that the Romans and Egyptians are great excavators and builders?

4. How old is Tom, which is an age that Dawn thinks is really old?

5. What does Sam think beer smells like when Lonnie kisses her and it is on his breath? Sulpher

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sam feel about Bruce Springsteen?

2. Why is it ironic that Colonel Blake fell out of the sky on his way home from the war?

3. Why didn't Sam move to Lexington with her mother and her new husband?

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

5. How does Dawn feel about her father?

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

7. Why doesn't Sam believe that Emmett brought his Army jacket on the trip to Washington because he thought it might be cold?

8. What makes Emmett say that Earl gets up on his high horse?

9. What does Sam feel when she hears the new Beatles song on the radio?

10. What is the difference between Dwayne and Emmett in relation to Vietnam?

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