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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 missing from the thing John and his friends found in the woods?
(a) The windshield.
(b) The engine.
(c) The doors.
(d) The wheels.

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

3. How was John spending his time when he was sixteen?
(a) Working in a factory.
(b) Hitchhiking around.
(c) Hanging around in bars.
(d) Studying independently.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's first Porsche?

2. What did John's grandfather let him do?

3. What didn't John like about the Caribbean?

4. Which rock band did John NOT work with?

5. Would would Doug do when John Robison was playing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

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

3. Describe John's attempts to act normal.

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

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

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

7. How did John get to know Ace Frehley?

8. Describe the deterioration of John's parents' marriage in chapter 7,

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

10. What was Jim Boughton's secret project?

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