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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. How does John characterize his relationship with Mary Trompke at this time?
(a) She was the only good part of his days.
(b) She wouldn't have anything to do with him.
(c) They were close, but the relationship was troubled.
(d) She was actively trying to convince him to change his life but he resisted her.

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

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

4. How did John's driving lessons end?
(a) At his parents' house.
(b) In a ditch.
(c) At his grandmother's house.
(d) Safely back home.

5. What did John and his friends find in the woods?
(a) A helicopter.
(b) A Porsche.
(c) A truck.
(d) A tractor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John design for Mick at Britro?

2. What was John's nickname for his mother?

3. Who is Doug?

4. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?

5. What did John put in the holes he dug at Halloween?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does John say he had playing with other children?

2. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

3. Describe John's attempts to act normal.

4. What story does John say he told the proud parents whose children would be going to Harvard and Smith?

5. Describe John Robison as a child.

6. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

7. What does John say was his mother's reaction to the dissolution of her marriage?

8. What was John's relationship with Porsches after this first encounter?

9. What was inappropriate about John's smiling at his mother's friend Betsy's news?

10. Describe John's habit of digging holes.

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