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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. Why does Ed say Joey is at his new school?
(a) To protect others.
(b) To protect himself.
(c) To be punished.
(d) To get some help.

2. What goal does Joey tell the school nurse about?
(a) He wants to invent a better medicine for kids like him.
(b) He wants to do one good thing every day.
(c) He wants to help his mom stop drinking.
(d) He wants to become a teacher.

3. Why does Joey pick up a dirty band aid off the ground?
(a) His scratched arm hurts.
(b) He wants to give it to Muriel
(c) It looks like the nose to him.
(d) He thinks it is the one he took off.

4. What is Ed's occupation?
(a) Personal assistant.
(b) Bus driver.
(c) Case worker.
(d) Special Education teacher.

5. Where is Joey told to get counseling?
(a) The nurse's office.
(b) The school counseling center.
(c) A Special Education center.
(d) A therapeutic office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joey's mother promise him if he is good at the new school?

2. What does Charlie do when Joey sits next to him?

3. What is Joey left in a room with as part of a test?

4. What does Joey's mother do when she sees the dirty band aid Joey picks up?

5. What does Joey's mother say Joey is not?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joey tell his mother about his past hurts while they are traveling to Pittsburgh?

2. What was Joey doing just before he hurt one of his classmates?

3. What three things does Ed promise Joey will get from the new school he is attending?

4. What does Joey gain from sneaking out with the gifted students when he has a substitute?

5. What is Joey's punishment for hurting one of his classmates?

6. Why does Joey's mother say she was unable to come back to him sooner?

7. How did Joey's grandmother used to use his mother against him?

8. What does Ed say when Joey redials his mother's phone number compulsively on his first day at the new school?

9. What does Joey's mother ask of Joey when they are sitting in the car eating their fast food?

10. What does Joey do when he needs a break at his new school?

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