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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. How does Sam think Emmett has been progressing over the years?
(a) He has been getting more crazy.
(b) He has been mellowing out.
(c) He has been getting more complacent.
(d) He has been getting more agitated.

2. What did Sam hear Emmett doing in the middle of the night before the dance?
(a) Talking to himself.
(b) Sobbing loudly.
(c) Shutting the windows.
(d) Cooking burritos.

3. What does Sam buy at Flag Days?
(a) Pom-pom socks.
(b) A book of hymns.
(c) A camouflage jacket.
(d) An American flag.

4. What does the injured soldier do on M*A*S*H do that Emmett points out to Anita?
(a) Throws a bedpan at Hawkeye.
(b) Wiggles his toes.
(c) Goes into cardiac arrest.
(d) Dies on the table.

5. Emmett's ability to become absorbed in thought over mundane things makes him good at what?
(a) Digging trenches.
(b) Pac-Man.
(c) Sweeping floors.
(d) Watching television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of team does Sam say Emmett should coach for a living?

2. Because of working on the foundation of the house, Emmett becomes acutely conscious of what?

3. What brand of brownie mix does Anita prefer?

4. What does Anita say about the Vietnam War in general, agreeing with what Sam says her mother thinks about the war?

5. What does Tom hand Sam to drink?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Sam feel about Bruce Springsteen?

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

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

5. For Sam, what is the difference between the way people express their feelings on TV versus how they do in real life?

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

7. How does Sam see the waitress at Howard Johnson's where she, Mawmaw, and Emmett eat on their trip?

8. What does Sam have in her purse that she thinks Mawmaw would have a heart attack if she found out was there and what is her plan if she gets pulled over by the police?

9. How does Anita act towards Emmett when she comes over for dinner?

10. What is the reason Sam thinks Jim's wife let him?

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