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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 does Jacy say about premarital sex?
(a) It is highly overrated.
(b) It is a sin.
(c) It is fun.
(d) It is common.

2. Who is Bobby dating?
(a) Marlene.
(b) Charlene.
(c) Lois.
(d) Annie.

3. Coach Popper gets mad when only how many players show up for practice?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

4. Sonny's father is injured how?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Oil rig accident.
(c) Fire.
(d) Tractor accident.

5. What does Dwayne feel that he needs to do in order to keep Jacy?
(a) Kill Sonny.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Sleep with her.
(d) Forbid her from going to Wichita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jacy want to go to school?

2. Who does Jacy go to a naked swim party with?

3. What do Sonny and Dwayne eat at the all-night diner?

4. What does Lois tell Jacy about Dwayne during their talk together?

5. Who do the group of boys pay to have sex with Billy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Coach Popper didn't tell Ruth that Sonny would be driving her to the doctor?

2. Why does Marlene think about Charlene being sent away to have her baby when Charlene isn't pregnant?

3. Why does Genevieve say that she and her husband quit being friends with the Farrows?

4. Why do you think Sonny and Dwayne choose to live above the pool hall?

5. What is the Farrow's true money situation?

6. Why did Sam never marry the girl from the tank?

7. Why do you think Sonny feels depressed that he isn't in the army?

8. Which character seems to be a father figure to the boy characters? Give an example of him playing this role from the story.

9. Why do you think Billy helps Sonny with his loneliness?

10. Why do you think Sonny goes and sees Ruth at the end of the book?

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