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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. When Mawmaw says she is fifty-eight, she also says that she has twenty years worth of what tacked onto her age?
(a) Fat layers.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Experience.
(d) Worry.

2. What does Irene say of Campbell's Soup as Emmett is eating split pea soup from the can?
(a) That it needs water added.
(b) That he needs to cook it first.
(c) That it is full of salt.
(d) That it reminds her of C-rations.

3. What movie does Lonnie ask if Sam wants to go see?
(a) The Spy Who Loved Me.
(b) Return of the Jedi.
(c) Stripes.
(d) Ghostbusters.

4. While the transmission of the VW is being fixed, Sam goes where?
(a) The restroom.
(b) The food court.
(c) The pet store.
(d) The record store and punk clothing store.

5. According to Dwayne's journal, dealing with the Vietcong is a lot like what?
(a) Waiting for a wolverine atttack.
(b) Hunting rabbits.
(c) Looking for morels.
(d) Chasing ghosts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Coke she drinks in the morning make her feel?

2. What does Sam's mouth taste like to her in the morning after being at Tom's?

3. What artist has a video on MTV that Sam recognizes as she pours herself a Pepsi while talking to her mother?

4. Where does Pete want to take Sam that creeps her out?

5. What does Grandma Smith call Emmett's digging and such?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the arms of the willow tree shadowed on her wall remind Sam of?

3. What does Tom say about his state of mind concerning his sexual interaction with women?

4. What does Sam hope Tom will do the day after their encounter at his apartment?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sam think would have happened if her parents had waited to have her until Dwayne got back from the war?

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