2. How long did John take to finish the year-long electronics course he was enrolled in?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two years.
(d) A semester.

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

4. How does John characterize his relationship with his parents?
(a) They were close.
(b) They were overly concerned and oppressive.
(c) They didn't know what he was doing.
(d) They were always together.

5. Who is Betsy?
(a) John Robison's babysitter.
(b) John Robison's first-grade teacher.
(c) John Robison's playmate.
(d) A friend of John Robison's mother.

6. What would John Robison do to Doug?
(a) Refuse to respond to him.
(b) Ignore him.
(c) Hit him on the ears.
(d) Make fun of him.

7. What was John Robison's reaction when his parents fought?
(a) He cried.
(b) He yelled at them to distract them from their fight.
(c) He hurt himself.
(d) He would faint.

8. How did John's father injure John's brother Chris?
(a) He put a cigarette out on his forehead.
(b) He beat him.
(c) He left him alone for hours.
(d) He slammed his fingers in a door.

9. What was the ultimate explanation for the vehicle in the woods?
(a) It was stolen.
(b) It had crashed.
(c) It was being given away.
(d) It had been abandoned.

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

11. How does John characterize his relationship with the musicians?
(a) Like a worker, working alongside comrades.
(b) Like a parent looking out for his children.
(c) Like a brother looking out for his brothers.
(d) Like a mechanic with a race car driver.

12. What story did John have to recant?
(a) That he was going to Harvard.
(b) That he had seen feral children in his rounds as a garbage man.
(c) That he kept a rabid raccoon as a pet.
(d) That he was raising a baby he found in a dumpster.

13. Who took care of John and Chris when their mother was hospitalized?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Family friends and neighbors.
(c) Their aunt.
(d) Their grandparents.

14. What does John say his mother told him about his father?
(a) She said that he was going to kill them all.
(b) She says that he had cancer.
(c) She says that he was really someone else.
(d) She says that he was a spy.

15. What happened to John's mother after she separated from John's father?
(a) She married another man.
(b) She started to date younger women.
(c) She went back to school for a nursing degree.
(d) She moved away and he never heard from her.