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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. Who does Sam realize that Ronald Reagan looks exactly like?
(a) Arnold Schwartzenegger.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) A stick of beef jerkey.
(d) Dagwood Bumstead.

2. Apparently the Vietnamese could make a bomb out of what that the Americans threw away?
(a) An apple core.
(b) A shell casing.
(c) A plastic bag.
(d) A Coke can.

3. Irene drove through Paducah like a what in her new Trans Am?
(a) A crazy woman with frizzy hair.
(b) A woman on a mission.
(c) A goddess driving a chariot.
(d) A wild cartoon character.

4. Where does Sam let Emmett out so she can drive around the parking lot while he shops?
(a) Penney's.
(b) Kroger's.
(c) K Mart.
(d) Sureway.

5. What does Sam use to swab her pierced ears?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Witch hazel.
(c) Soap and water.
(d) Salcylic acid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is going on in New Orleans that Lorenzo jones thinks Mawmaw should see?

2. How does the V.A. treat Tom's sexual dysfunction problem?

3. What does Dawn buy at the super market that freaks her out when she goes to cook it?

4. Sam thinks she has always been good at figuring out what?

5. What radio station's DJ's tell sick jokes that Sam doesn't like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam have trouble caring about her father?

2. How does Sam perceive the Washington Monument and the flag near the Vietnam Memorial?

3. How determined is Grandma Smith to go to Florida?

4. Why hadn't the the previous occupant of Sam's house, Bessie, thrown away the liquor bottles her husband had drunk from?

5. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?

6. In Dwayne's journal, what happens when he follows the Vietcong?

7. How does Sam speculate on how women would run the world if they had the power men had?

8. Why does a curious pleasure steal over Sam as she hears someone approaching on the boardwalk at Caewood's Pond?

9. How does Sam speculate on the moment of origin?

10. According to Sam, what do girls, boys, women, and talk about and how are men different?

(see the answer keys)

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