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

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

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

4. How does John say he kept himself popular?
(a) By getting good grades.
(b) By smoking.
(c) By playing pranks.
(d) By making trouble.

5. What did John put in the holes he dug at Halloween?
(a) Fake corpses.
(b) Friends dressed as zombies.
(c) Flashing lights.
(d) Flash powder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did John's father injure John's brother Chris?

3. How did Jim start a fire?

4. What did Professor Edwards open up to John?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

2. Describe John's relation with Chris.

3. Why was the winter of 1978 good for John?

4. Describe John Robison as a child.

5. How did Rusty Nail change John's life?

6. Describe Dr. Finch's strange behavior.

7. Describe John's parents' relationship.

8. Describe John's departure from high school.

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

10. Describe the prank John played on his mother.

(see the answer keys)

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