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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, the solitary three lines about shedding your symptoms in your dreams or they will shed you, suggest
(a) Lionel dreams that everyone shuns him.
(b) Lionel sleeps fitfully.
(c) Lionel does not have his symptoms in his dreams and feels a loss of identity without them.
(d) Lionel has taken the wrong medication.

3. The characteristic of Lionel's that is masked by his symptoms is
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His need for vengence.
(c) His sensitivity.
(d) His love of food.

4. At the age of thirteen, Tony is taken in and then returned by foster parents because
(a) He is caught in bed with their sixteen-year-old daughter.
(b) They are Quaker.
(c) He smokes and swears.
(d) He is gay.

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

6. Many of Lionel's verbal responses include
(a) Rhymes.
(b) References to his childhood.
(c) Profanity.
(d) Spitting.

7. Frank Minna refers to his Mother as
(a) Mommy.
(b) Ma.
(c) The Old Stove.
(d) Carlotta.

8. The hospital Frank tells Gilbert to drive to is
(a) Brooklyn-Queens Hospital.
(b) St. Albert Hospital.
(c) Brooklyn Hospital.
(d) St. Vincents Hospital.

9. As they follow Frank in the car, after his abduction, they hear his captor say
(a) That Frank will pay.
(b) That Frank shouldn't be stupid.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That he is Polish.

10. The parentheses around the title of Chapter 4 indicate
(a) That it is not important information.
(b) That the chapter represents unconscious thought.
(c) That someone else is thinking it.
(d) An aside.

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

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

13. In Chapter 4, the lack of punctuation in the sentence suggests
(a) Illogical thoughts.
(b) Drifting thoughts with no beginning or end.
(c) Unimportant thoughts.
(d) This is how all of Lionel's thoughts pass through his brain.

14. Throughout the story, an outburst from Lionel typically includes
(a) Wog.
(b) Dry weed.
(c) Bailey.
(d) Drink up.

15. The Minna Men first meet Frank's brother, Gerard at
(a) Their mother's home during Christmas dinner.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) They never meet him.
(d) At the Zendo.

Short Answer Questions

1. By condensing Chapter 4 to one page and one phrase that mentions dreams, the author is conveying

2. When Lionel visits Julia, she teases him by

3. Throughout the book, vignettes tell the reader

4. When asked who wounded him, Frank's response is

5. The personal items Frank leaves in the back seat of the car so that they are not stolen in the hospital are

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