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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The police officer continually calls Lionel
(a) Bailey.
(b) Alibi.
(c) Prince.
(d) Knuckle head.

2. After their work is done, Frank often gives the boys
(a) Advice.
(b) Twenty dollars and a beer.
(c) One hundred dollars.
(d) Driving lessons.

3. When Frank says, "Don't tug the boat," he means
(a) Failing to introduce someone.
(b) Pushing your luck too far.
(c) Interrupting.
(d) Making everyone wait for you.

4. The L & L Car Service was a front for
(a) A comedy shop.
(b) A detective agency.
(c) A gun shop.
(d) A fake I.D. shop.

5. In Chapter 4, the author changes point of view to
(a) Third person, omniscient.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

6. At Sarah J. Hale High School, it is not cool for a white boy to talk to, flirt with or make eye contact with a black girl because
(a) They are already claimed by boyfriends and their lives lead elsewhere.
(b) Their are only a few black girls.
(c) The student majority is hispanic.
(d) The white girl gangs will be insulted and ambush them.

7. In the phrase, "in Tourette Dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you," it is implied that
(a) Tics change at night.
(b) Tics are not very friendly.
(c) Tics involve shedding.
(d) Tics have control over the person and not vice versa.

8. Frank Minna begins picking the boys up
(a) From school.
(b) After midnight.
(c) In a van.
(d) To visit his mother.

9. The owner of Zeod's Market asks Lionel if he should
(a) Kick the policeman out of his store.
(b) Make the policeman the same sandwich.
(c) Put his sandwich on Frank's tab.
(d) Put his sandwich in a bag.

10. The four Minna Men are
(a) Frank, Tony, Danny and Gilbert
(b) Tony, Danny, Gilbert and Lionel.
(c) Gerard, Frank, Tony and Lionel
(d) Tony, Danny, Frank and Lionel.

11. Gilbert is tolerant of Lionel because
(a) They are step brothers.
(b) They smoke together.
(c) They share a memory of the Penguin Diorama on a museum field trip.
(d) He feels sorry for him.

12. The door of Lionel's apartment was riddled by dents because
(a) Lionel had a ritual of rapping his keys on the door before he opened it.
(b) A decorator told him that was the style.
(c) One of his neighbors had tried to kick it down.
(d) Gangsters had shot at it.

13. At the hospital, the doctors tell Lionel and Gilbert
(a) That Frank is in surgery.
(b) That they couldn't save Frank.
(c) That Frank had a heart attack.
(d) That Frank needs stitches.

14. Lionel finds Frank
(a) By listening to the headphones until he hears his own footsteps.
(b) By accidentally tripping over him in the dark.
(c) By yelling and listening for Frank to yell back.
(d) By torturing the giant until he gets the information out of him.

15. The fragmented sentence broken into three parts in Chapter 4 suggests
(a) A new number compulsion.
(b) The three other Minna Men.
(c) Lionel's brainwaves.
(d) The interrupted delivery of thought in sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lionel thinks Gilbert is framed for

2. The phrase, "and you go with them, astonished to leave yourself behind," implies

3. When Frank leaves the building, he is being escorted by

4. Minna Men wear suits, drive cars, listen to tapped lines, stand behind Minna, hands in their pockets, look menacing, carry money, collect money, don't ask questions, answer phones, pick up packages, and follow instructions suggests that

5. When Lionel goes to tell Julia about Frank, he finds out

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