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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. In the sentence, "and you go with them, astonished to leave yourself behind," who is them?
(a) Other people suffering from Tourette's.
(b) Your dreams.
(c) The tics.
(d) The sheds.

2. The phrase, "and you go with them, astonished to leave yourself behind," implies
(a) A person with Tourette's has no identity without their tics.
(b) Walking in your sleep.
(c) Having a nightmare.
(d) A hallucination.

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

4. Almost everyone in the story
(a) Shoots someone.
(b) Smokes.
(c) Caught Lionel's disease from him.
(d) Is adopted.

5. Lionel describes the effect of drugs on his constellation of behaviors as
(a) Snowflake land.
(b) Rama-lama-ding-dong.
(c) Dimming the world.
(d) Wheels within wheels.

Short Answer Questions

1. The phenomenon that the boys study by watching television shows like I Dream of Jeannie and the Brady Bunch is

2. Frank and Julia Minna are

3. Lionel's visits to all of Frank's favorite places suggest

4. The first person to enter the building they are staking out is

5. Loomis' tendencies toward laziness and imprecision cause Lionel to

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Frank play in the lives of the MInna Men?

2. Explain the difference between a real car service and L & L.

3. Why was Lionel visiting all of Frank's old haunts?

4. What would a typical day working for Frank entail when the boys first started with him?

5. Describe Frank's condition when they find him.

6. What characteristic does Lionel give Frank credit for developing in himself?

7. Frank's nickname for Lionel, Freakshow, suggests what?

8. Describe what happens in the penguin incident with Lionel and Gilbert.

9. Which of Lionel's symtoms keeps repeating itself on the night of the stakeout?

10. What is Julia's reaction when Lionel stops by to tell her about Frank?

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