View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What symptoms did John develop during this time?
(a) Suicidal tendencies.
(b) Seizures.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Nervous tics.

3. How deep was the deepest hole John dropped Chris in?
(a) Knee deep for Chris.
(b) Up to Chris' shoulders.
(c) Up to Chris' waist.
(d) Deeper than Chris' height.

4. What does John say he preferred?
(a) Playing closely with one other friend.
(b) Playing in team sports.
(c) Leading the other children in their play.
(d) Playing alone with his toys.

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

6. How does John describe the change in his father, in chapter 6?
(a) His father was getting more easygoing.
(b) His father was becoming meaner.
(c) His father was becoming less predictable.
(d) His father was turning senile.

7. Where did John get a job?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A sound company.
(c) A garbage collector.
(d) Harvard.

8. What did John learn to distinguish appropriate reactions from?
(a) Polite ones.
(b) Genuine ones.
(c) Scripted ones.
(d) Expected ones.

9. Who is Chuckie?
(a) John Robison's teacher.
(b) A girl John Robison liked.
(c) A boy John Robison liked.
(d) John Robison's best friend.

10. What ultimately happened to Doug?
(a) He had a nervous breakdown.
(b) He moved to another town.
(c) He died in an irrigation ditch.
(d) He was killed in a car accident.

11. How did John Robison feel when he was around other kids?
(a) Inferior.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Outlandish.
(d) Superior.

12. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?
(a) A car.
(b) A blast furnace.
(c) A robot.
(d) A smithy.

13. What good news does John describe in the winter of 1978?
(a) He started his own business.
(b) He got a job with a band.
(c) He reunited with Mary Trompke.
(d) He got his GED.

14. What did John Robison realize he had to work at?
(a) His parents' instructions.
(b) Responding to other children.
(c) His bodily needs.
(d) His homework.

15. What does John say he can now see about his father?
(a) That he was depressed.
(b) That he was dying.
(c) That he was sick.
(d) That he was profoundly unhappy in his marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John help Ace Frehley do to his guitar?

2. What observation of John's brought him to his company's notice?

3. How does John say his biology teacher treated him?

4. What made people think that John was a prodigy?

5. What happened to John's mother after she separated from John's father?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 560 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample