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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 topic do Jeffrey and Charlie NOT tease each other about in Chapter Two?
(a) How to get girls.
(b) The best way to die.
(c) Their popularity.
(d) The best super heroes.

2. What famous Pudd'nhead Wilson quote resonates with Charlie?
(a) "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
(b) “As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.”
(c) “When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
(d) "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."

3. Where does Charlie find Eliza in Chapter Three?
(a) At the library.
(b) Outside the bookstore.
(c) At the grove.
(d) Outside her house.

4. Which of the following is an example of personification from Chapter Four?
(a) "Two black dragonflies in the sky" (116).
(b) "The brick groans in my belly" (123).
(c) "There should be laws against it" (122).
(d) "Pete Wishart stands stoic" (123).

5. Why does Jasper trust Charlie?
(a) He and Charlie have been friends their entire lives.
(b) Charlie has always expressed the desire to be a defense attorney.
(c) He knows, based on the Charlie's bookish demeanor, that Charlie sees a truth the others cannot.
(d) Jasper has seen Charlie stick up for the underdog countless times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is an example of a pun from Chapter Three?

2. What advice does his father give Charlie in Chapter Three about dealing with his mother?

3. Why does Mrs. Lu not chastise Jeffrey and Charlie for cursing?

4. Which description does NOT fit Jeffrey?

5. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the problems between Charlie and his mother?

2. How does Charlie's research into killers affect the way he thinks about his town?

3. Why does Charlie admire Batman?

4. Would you describe Jeffrey and Charlie's friendship as close?

5. Why does Jeffrey really come to Charlie's window in Chapter Four?

6. Why do Jeffrey and Charlie spend so much time speaking in puns, especially those with a blasphemous tone?

7. In what ways is Eliza similar to Audrey Hepburn's movie characters?

8. Why is it unusual that no one is talking about Laura Wishart's disappearance in Chapter Two?

9. How is The Wizard of Oz a prominent motif in Chapter Four?

10. Why does Charlie not admire Superman?

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