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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. According to Sam, her mother had an explanation for everything now that she was taking what class?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Social Science.
(c) Physics.
(d) Anthropology.

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

3. What does Sam think is a pleasant thing for a guy to have in his room?
(a) A picture of his mother.
(b) A quilt.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) A night light.

4. Sam finds a year's worth of what that had been saved for the Boy Scouts in the basement?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) Old clothes.
(c) The Hopewell Citizen.
(d) Canned food.

5. What is Irene watching on TV while Sam and Emmett clear out her old room?
(a) AfterMash.
(b) M*A*S*H.
(c) Between Friends.
(d) Remington Steele.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Sam going to spend the night with all her canned food?

2. What had Sam lost the desire for one Christmas that parallel's her loss of desire for Lonnie?

3. What has caused the tiny bumps on Tom's back?

4. What greets Sam when she gets back to her house?

5. Mawmaw sets a platter of what on the table to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam make her mother's bed up with two fitted bottom sheets?

2. Where is Sam when a man tries to pick up on her and how does she react to his advances?

3. How does Sam feel about cats and what does Dawn say about them?

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

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

6. Why did Emmett get soured on the war and who did he get involved with afterward?

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

8. What is happening to Sam's perception as she spends time in Tom's apartment?

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

10. Why didn't Sam give her mother the ceramic cat she decorated when Irene gave her $600 to buy the car?

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