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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By condensing Chapter 4 to one page and one phrase that mentions dreams, the author is conveying
(a) The passing of night.
(b) Lionel spending the night with Kimmery.
(c) Frank's unconsciousness.
(d) An epileptic attack.

2. 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) The white girl gangs will be insulted and ambush them.
(c) The student majority is hispanic.
(d) Their are only a few black girls.

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

4. Another of Lionel's pet peeves with Loomis involves joke telling because
(a) He forgets the punch lines.
(b) His punch lines are lame.
(c) He tells riddles instead of jokes.
(d) He always tells the same three jokes.

5. The first person to enter the building they are staking out is
(a) Officer Loomis.
(b) Frank.
(c) Tony.
(d) Kimmery.

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

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

8. Echolalia refers to
(a) Yelling in between buildings to see if it echoes.
(b) Memorizing and repeating back conversations, word for word.
(c) Copying what someone else says each they say something.
(d) Repeating and changing words.

9. Frank loves the effects of Lionel's disease on his clients because
(a) He is rude.
(b) It unnerves them.
(c) He thinks they need to be taught a lesson.
(d) He wants to teach them about the disease.

10. The Minna Man convinced that the Italians will return for him is
(a) Danny
(b) Tony
(c) Frank
(d) Lionel

11. When Lionel returns from seeing Julia, he gets a phone call with news that
(a) The police officer needs to ask him more questions.
(b) Julia has returned.
(c) The Minna Men have a new job.
(d) Gilbert has been arrested.

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

13. Lionel thinks Gilbert is framed for
(a) Uhlmann's murder.
(b) Stealing money from L & L Car Service.
(c) Tony's murder.
(d) Frank's murder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The more obvious symptoms of Lionel's disease are

2. The narrator of the story is

3. From what point of view is the story told?

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

5. In the phrase, "in Tourette Dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you," it is implied that

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