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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 and 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Frankie feel that he will lose as a result of the misdeed that he has committed?
(a) His position as pitcher on his baseball team.
(b) His position as an altar boy.
(c) His position as a grass mower in the neighborhood.
(d) His position as delivery boy for Uncle Ralphie.

2. Which of the following two questions is Penny being asked covertly every time that she is visited at the hospital by a friend or relative, and asked how she is feeling?
(a) Is the doctor going to perform surgery on you?
(b) Are you bored after having spent so many days here?
(c) Can you move your fingers yet?
(d) Are you depressed?

3. Who has offered Penny a job?
(a) Uncle Ralphie.
(b) Me-me.
(c) Pop-pop.
(d) Uncle Dominic.

4. What is the name of Pop-pop's deceased nephew whom he claims to be able to talk to through radio static?
(a) Mickey.
(b) Allen.
(c) Gus.
(d) Charlie.

5. Whom of the following asks a nurse whether Penny's father was really a spy?
(a) A man named Wade.
(b) A man named Marvin.
(c) A man named Harvey.
(d) A man named Winston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Penny punch in the nose during the baseball game that she and Frankie are playing?

2. What decade is the setting for this story?

3. What was the underlying basis for the lack of closeness between Penny's mother and Penny's paternal side of the family?

4. Who is arguing while Penny is working on the laundry?

5. What does Me-me notice about the dress that Penny is to wear to her deceased relative's wake?

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