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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When John was thirteen, what grade level was he working at, in building things?
(a) Elementary school.
(b) Junior high.
(c) College.
(d) High school.

2. What does John say became more difficult as her got older?
(a) Understanding the language of the children around him.
(b) Making sense of adults' contradictory expectations.
(c) Refraining from blurting out his thoughts.
(d) Controlling his troublemaking urges.

3. How did John get revenge against his biology teacher?
(a) By having porn magazines sent to the teacher's house.
(b) By spreading rumors about the teacher.
(c) By writing dirty things about the teacher in the bathroom.
(d) By disrupting the teacher's class.

4. What tool was John fascinated by?
(a) His grandfather's lathe.
(b) His grandfather's electronic equipment.
(c) His grandfather's post hole digger.
(d) His grandfather's power saw.

5. How did Jim start a fire?
(a) Sparks ignited the gasoline in a vat.
(b) One of his sculptures combusted in the foundry.
(c) He spilled kerosene near a stove.
(d) His furnace exploded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John buy when he sold his first Porsche?

2. What does John say his mother told him about his father?

3. What was the ultimate explanation for the vehicle in the woods?

4. How deep was the deepest hole John dropped Chris in?

5. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?

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